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James Russell

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Engineering Manager at Lakemont Group · AWS, Go

Works at
Lakemont Group
Location
Seattle, WA · PT (UTC-8)
Experience
11+ years experience
Education
Stanford GSB
Languages
English
Hiring
Message Connect

Overview

I've spent 12 years on cloud infrastructure - first at JPMorgan Chase, now at Lakemont Group. Mentored 13 engineers through their first promotion. Before that: Lockheed Martin and KPMG. Most at home with Linux and Prometheus. Plant-based cook and baker.

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  • Candidates for the role I'm hiring for
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Skills
TerraformAWSLinuxPrometheusincident responseKubernetesGo
HiringHiring for a role
closes in 3 months

9 security engineer roles open on the infrastructure team in Seattle

Role
Security engineer
Level
Mid
Type
Full-time
Work mode
On-site
Compensation
$147k-$217k + equity
Team
Infrastructure, 4 people
Start
Within two months
Must have
Production experience with Prometheus Production experience with Go Clear written communication
Process
3 conversations, no take-home

Comp $210k-$288k. One technical chat and a paid trial day. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Seattle, WAterraformprometheuskubernetes
Open

Experience

  1. Engineering Manager
    Mar 2025 - Present
    Lakemont Group · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Seattle, WA
    • Led the migration of 68 services to AWS.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 25 minutes to under 4.
  2. Site Reliability Engineer
    Jun 2023 - Mar 2025
    Lockheed Martin · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Seattle, WA
    • Moved 62% of infrastructure traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Reduced cloud spend on infrastructure by 23% in two quarters.
  3. Site Reliability Engineer
    Jan 2022 - Jun 2023
    KPMG · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Seattle, WA
    • Brought on-call pages for infrastructure down from 17 a week to 1.
    • Shipped 18 launches on the infrastructure team without a rollback.
  4. Site Reliability Engineer
    Apr 2019 - Jan 2022
    Databricks · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Seattle, WA
    • Shipped 10 launches on the infrastructure team without a rollback.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 42 minutes to under 4.
  5. Site Reliability Engineer
    Apr 2016 - Apr 2019
    JPMorgan Chase · 3 yr · Contract · Seattle, WA
    • Cut p99 latency on the infrastructure services from 359ms to 133ms.
    • Shipped 28 launches on the infrastructure team without a rollback.

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Education

  1. Stanford GSB
    MBA, Business Administration
    2015 - 2017
  2. Parsons School of Design
    BFA, Information Technology
    2009 - 2013

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