The Tenacious Technologist
Greater Nashville Area
- Current
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- Principal at Zaffra, LLC
- Vice President, Engineering at Digital Reasoning Systems
- Contributor at Dojo Foundation
- Communications/Intelligence Officer at United States Air Force
- Past
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- Independent Author & Tech Reviewer at O'Reilly & Associates
- Principal Software Engineer (Ajax Consultant) at Sun Microsystems
- Senior Software Engineer at Parsons
- Computer Scientist at White Oak Technologies
- Education
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- Air Force Institute of Technology
- United States Air Force Academy
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Matthew Russell’s Summary
Technologist, author, computer scientist with deep expertise in web development using the LAMP stack, the Dojo Toolkit, and machine learning algorithms. A passion for leading and architecting lightweight development efforts given spartan resources, a small budget, limited time, and high pressure.
Matthew Russell’s Specialties:
Leading and developing end-to-end advanced web applications for the open web with DHTML/JavaScript, Machine Learning (especially evolutionary computation algorithms), project management, Python
Matthew Russell’s Experience
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Principal
Zaffra, LLC
(Computer Software industry)
September 2008 — Present (11 months)
Agile Web Development
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Vice President, Engineering
Digital Reasoning Systems
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
October 2007 — Present (1 year 10 months)
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Contributor
Dojo Foundation
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
August 2007 — Present (2 years)
I recently authored a book entitled Dojo: The Definitive Guide, published by O'Reilly Media in Jun 2008
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Communications/Intelligence Officer
United States Air Force
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Military industry)
June 2003 — Present (6 years 2 months)
I transitioned from active duty to the reserves back in 2005. In my current reserve officer capacity, I advise the Defense Intelligence Agency on matters relating to advanced internet technologies.
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Independent Author & Tech Reviewer
O'Reilly & Associates
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Publishing industry)
2005 — 2008 (3 years)
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Principal Software Engineer (Ajax Consultant)
Sun Microsystems
(Computer Software industry)
2008 — 2008 (less than a year)
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Senior Software Engineer
Parsons
(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Civil Engineering industry)
July 2007 — October 2007 (4 months)
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Computer Scientist
White Oak Technologies
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 2006 — July 2007 (1 year 5 months)
Matthew Russell’s Education
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Air Force Institute of Technology
M.S. , Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Evolutionary Computation, High Performance Computing , 2003 — 2005
- Activities and Societies:
- Tau Beta Pi
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United States Air Force Academy
B.S. , Computer Science , 1999 — 2003
- Activities and Societies:
- Wings of Blue Parachute Team; CS-21;
Additional Information
Matthew Russell’s Websites:
Matthew Russell’s Interests:
bicycling, Python, JavaScript hacking, beer, coin collecting, Calvin and Hobbes comics, theology
Matthew Russell’s Groups:
Dojo, Tau Beta Pi, The "associates" part of "O'Reilly & Associates"
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Dojo Ajax Toolkit Developers
Matthew Russell’s Honors:
Distinguished Graduate - 2005 - Air Force Institute of Technology (top 10% of graduating class)
Dean W. Gonzalez Award - 2003 - United States Air Force Academy (top cadet in Computer Science major)
Distinguished Graduate - 2003 - United States Air Force Adademy (top 10% of graduating class)
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