Reducing production errors and increasing customer satisfaction
Supporting your team as Fractional Head of DevOps and Strategic Advisor.
I specialize in automating the software delivery workflows from development to deployment.
With these game-changing automations, you’ll see reduced time to production and increased customer satisfaction.
❝this code is untestable so we can't implement tests❞
❝it's too risky to make big changes now❞
❝why are these kinds of bugs making it to customers?❞
Sound familiar?
These are symptoms of code, workflows and processes that need work to adapt and grow with the needs of the business. It’s time to put in the effort to make changes in how you develop software.
Take a Byte out of your development time
Hi! I’m Russell.
Software development doesn't have to be painfully slow and inefficient.
As a Fractional Head of DevOps with more than 25 years of experience, I help remote-first companies with 20-200 employees reduce their errors by dealing with the highly complex and abstract nature of software delivery tasks.
I’ve spent my career building DevOps and Platform Engineering tooling before those terms existed. As a result, the companies I worked for were able to support the business and their developers better.
SET UP AUTOMATION WITH EASE
How I’ll streamline your software delivery
Continuous
Integration
Continuous integration (CI) is the practice of regularly integrating code changes from multiple developers into a shared repository. This is achieved through automated testing and build processes to detect errors early and ensure that new code is compatible with the existing codebase.
Continuous Deployment
Continuous deployment (CD) is an extension of continuous integration where every change that passes the automated tests is automatically released to production. There is ideally no manual intervention at all after a code change has been deployed down the pipeline to the customer.
Continuous
Delivery
Continuous delivery (confusingly, also CD) brings continuous integration and continuous deployment together into a smoothly operating system. This means that every application change that passes the automated tests is automatically deployed to the environment you need, without requiring any manual intervention.
What People Are Saying
❝Russell’s approach to solving engineering problems is based on well-founded experience in the software development lifecycle and a penchant for clarity, repeatability, and DRY principles. He sets clear expectations focused on the goal while leaving generous room for engineering creativity in implementation.❞
György Nadabán
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Cisco
❝You need someone that understands build processes like Russell does, with the deep knowledge of tools and techniques required to craft a custom build system.
Unless you have a deep bench of expertise around DevOps, CI/CD, etc, hiring someone to establish the foundation of tools and processes that you can maintain and evolve afterwards is money well spent. This is a unique skill, and Russell has it.❞
David Cater
Senior Software Manager
Renesas Electronics
