Michael Russell
Senior Software Engineer at ClickHouse
Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Russell is a Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years building scalable, automated infrastructure and developer platforms across Kubernetes, CI/CD, and secrets management. He led Elastic’s Kubernetes services platform and created the original Elastic Helm charts while driving a dynamic Jenkins worker scheduler and a Vault-based secrets service migration. Comfortable across Python, Ruby and shell, he focuses on automation, observability and testing—contributing test and CI improvements to high-profile open-source projects like Elastic’s Ansible role and Helm charts and enhancements to HashiCorp Vault. Based in Queensland, Australia, he pairs pragmatic engineering (and a fondness for YAML) with production-grade monitoring and alerting systems that he’s built and presented at international conferences.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Technology, Network Systems Major, Bachelor of Information Technology, Network Systems Major at Queensland University of Technology
English
Github Skills (27)
ssh10
kubernetes10
docker10
amazon-elasticsearch10
dockers10
cicd10
elasticsearchquery10
go10
aws-elasticsearch10
helm10
kubernetes-pods10
ansible10
elasticsearch10
ansible-galaxy10
serverspec10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/ansible-elasticsearch
Jan 2018 - Jul 2019
Ansible playbook for Elasticsearch
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:11 releases, 145 commits, 93 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the testing infrastructure within the Ansible playbook for Elasticsearch. They updated existing tests to accommodate dynamic Elasticsearch versions and made modifications to various serverspec files. The user also addressed path configurations and plugin versioning within the tests, indicating a focus on maintaining test accuracy and compatibility across different Elasticsearch versions. These changes suggest involvement in ensuring the quality and reliability of the Ansible role.
ansibleelasticsearchansible-rolerole-elasticsearch
elastic/helm-charts
Nov 2018 - Oct 2019
You know, for Kubernetes
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:14 releases, 310 commits, 210 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) aspects of the project. Their work involved configuring and integrating goss testing within the existing build pipeline, which included adding support for testing multiple containers. The user also implemented changes to the build system to improve test flakiness. Further work included modifying the release scripts and improving the overall test automation and build processes.
kubernetes
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