James Russo

James Russo

Engineering at Brex

Fullstack engineer who knows nothing about design.
Example: this website.

  • New York, NY
  • Github
  • LinkedIn
James Russo

James Russo

Engineering at Brex

Fullstack engineer who knows nothing about design.
Example: this website.

  • New York, NY
  • Github
  • LinkedIn

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About Me

Hi I'm James Russo and this is where I'll be writing down my thoughts and experiences mostly involving software and web development. However, fairwarning any number of other topics can pop up into this blog. This is my first attempt at a blog, and as an engineer I apologize in advance for my writing and design skills. Hopefully they will improve as I work on this more and more.

I am currently working at Brex building internal developer tools like a CLI using Golang + Cobra and a developer portal using Backstage . Previously I worked on the Cash team at Brex building modern technology to replace antiquated banking systems. Before Brex, I worked as a fullstack engineer in NYC for Rockets of Awesome, a childrens clothing subscription service and ecommerce brand. I also was the first engineer at an IoT and Analytics startup called Iterate Labs which wants to use data-driven insights to develop safer and more comfortable workplaces. In 2017, I graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. in Computer Science, where I concentrated in Machine Learning and also researched Systems, Security, and Blockchain technologies under Emin Gun Sirer and Soumya Basu .

On a day to day basis, I actively use Golang, Postgresql, GraphQL, Protocol Buffers, gRPC, and React with Typescript to name a few. I also actively use AWS Technologies, Kubernetes, and Docker. But in the past(and still occasionally), I have worked on projects in Elixir, Ruby on Rails, Flask and Python, React + Redux, Next.js, Express + Node.js, and Gatsby.js. However, I'm constantly evaluating and learning new technologies and will try to talk about anything I find interesting on this blog.

Some of my favorite websites to read and stay up to date with tech and web development are Hacker News and TechCrunch. I also read the following newsletters on a weekly or daily basis for tech and software related news and information Lab Notes , Software Lead Weekly , Founder Weekly , Javascript Weekly , Ruby Weekly , and Elixir Weekly . A few other weekly or daily newsletters I follow are Axios AM , The Daily Skimm , TLDR , and This Week in Fintech .

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