Boden Russell
Senior Software Engineer at CrowdStrike
Jacksonville, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBoden Russell is a senior software engineer with 13 years of experience building cloud-native backend systems, SaaS architectures, and high‑availability services, currently based in Jacksonville, FL. He has a strong track record leading engineering teams and delivering production-grade security and observability solutions across companies like Google/Mandiant, VMware, Limelight, and CrowdStrike. Boden’s work spans low-latency edge compute, Terraform integrations, and large-scale OpenStack contributions—he led consolidation efforts in neutron-lib and improved test/benchmarking in the Rally project. Comfortable partnering with product and users, he combines hands‑on coding in Go and systems-level design with operational excellence to drive customer outcomes. An often-overlooked strength is his long history of reducing operational friction—automating builds, CI/CD, and observability—to reliably ship complex distributed systems.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science Computer science software development math, Bachelor of Science in Computer Science Computer science software development math at Michigan Technological UniversityBachelor's degree in Computer Science Computer Science, Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Computer Science at Northern Michigan University
Github Skills (12)
unit-testing10
openstack10
pytest10
python10
test-automation10
refactor9
apidoc9
benchmarking9
benchmark9
api9
refactoring9
testing7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/neutron
Jul 2016 - Aug 2019
OpenStack Networking (Neutron). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:221 commits in 3 years
Contributions summary:Boden's commits primarily focused on refactoring the Neutron networking code to utilize the add/get API for local validator registration/access provided by neutron-lib. They replaced the existing direct access to the validators dict with the public API. Additional changes included refactoring the unit tests to utilize the new code as well.
networkingopenstack
openstack/rally
Oct 2013 - Dec 2013
Rally provides a framework for performance analysis and benchmarking of individual OpenStack components as well as full production OpenStack cloud deployments. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:9 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Boden focused on enhancing the testing infrastructure and improving test coverage within the `openstack/rally` repository. Their contributions included modifying existing tests to accurately reflect the desired states, specifically addressing error handling and status validation for OpenStack VMs. They also added new benchmark tests for booting servers, expanding the scenario testing capabilities. Furthermore, the user made performance-related improvements in test execution by mocking sleep functions, optimizing the testing process.
benchmarkingopenstack
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