About

Hi, I'm Russell. I'm a Director of Software Engineering at Porch Group, where I lead a global organization of 40+ people building AI platform infrastructure, ML systems, and the engineering culture that makes it all work. My career spans fifteen years of progressive leadership — from Agile adoption and CI/CD pipelines to LLM-powered products, batch inference platforms, and organizational transformation.

I treat management as a craft. I build teams that care about the quality of what they ship, develop leaders through deliberate coaching, and create structure in ambiguity so that engineering work connects to business outcomes. Before Porch, I spent five years at Brinks Home Security transforming a team of 8 into a tribe of 30 — a story I still think about often.

When I'm not building platforms or developing people, you can find me spending time with my sons Hayes and Jack, exploring new technologies, and thinking about how AI is changing the way we build software.