Russ is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, principle consultant and Value Driven Delivery advocate at OpenCredo.  

Leading a company of passionate open source and agile and lean software development experts who provide unbiased, honest arbiter advice across a wide and varied selection of open source technologies and agile processes and practices. Russ is a well known speaker and can be found at the most prestigious technology conferences around the globe. 

Before forming OpenCredo, Russ was one of the team of consultants at SpringSource where he was instrumental in delivering high profile client’s business critical applications and contributing to the success of a number of SpringSource projects. He is also a keen contributor to open source projects as well as being a prolific author of technology books including; "AspectJ Cookbook", "Learning UML 2.0" and "Head First Software Development".