About
I'm Reid Russell, a software engineer in Dallas. Professionally I build data infrastructure: cloud architecture, Rust services, and pipelines that move millions of rows a day. Personally, I've found that the most interesting software problems live inside hardware, so my projects keep drifting toward things with propellers, RF connectors, and combustion chambers.
The pattern across all of it: pick something slightly past what I know how to do, build the whole stack myself (the board, the firmware, the tooling, the infrastructure) and keep track of what worked and what's still on the bench. That's what the projects page tracks.
Experience
Commercial real estate data platform aggregating CMBS property data. Cloud infrastructure architecture, Rust backend APIs, data pipelines, and client-facing technical work on a ~6-engineer team.
Designed a standardized ingestion architecture that cut integration deployment time ~60%, and a distributed queue loader that processed 5M+ row datasets inside Azure Functions limits. Built integrations for Yardi, MRI, Snowflake, SFTP, and scraping pipelines.
HBO Max pipeline dashboard consolidating 5+ global systems into Snowflake; ETL automation that saved ~10 hours/week (Silver Award); CNN-based paint-quality classifier for 3M.
Options chain 3D visualizer for implied volatility, theta, open interest, and volume.
Fault-detection logging for AGVs, an Arduino waterjet safety system with load sensing and solenoid E-stop, and a lidar-equipped ROS test platform.
Education
B.S. Computer Science (AI/ML focus), Southern Methodist University, 2021. Along the way: mission planning and obstacle avoidance for an autonomous hexacopter in the SMU Robotics Club's DARPA competition entry, and avionics & payload team lead for Mustang Rocketry: separation systems and radio telemetry for a 10,000 ft competition rocket.
Licenses & certificates
- Private pilot: high-performance endorsement; instrument rating in progress
- FCC Amateur Radio Technician: call sign KJ5JQC (Jan 2025)
The homelab
A two-node Proxmox cluster with ZFS replication, OPNsense routing with VLAN-segmented networks, self-hosted Nextcloud, an LED matrix wall display that scrolls live portfolio positions, and a small fleet of services that the software projects run on. It's where things get deployed before they earn a real server.
Contact
GitHub · LinkedIn, or drop a message here and it lands on my desk: