# Russell Wakugawa > Software Engineer @ Atomic Invest Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/russellwakugawa https://razugo.github.io/ I'm Russell, a software engineer with experience from a diverse set of company sizes and industries, including streaming, e-commerce, fintech and more. My expertise lies in building resilient and scalable backend micro-services with experience in many other functional areas like full-stack, data analytics and robotics. Please feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn to learn more about my career and how I can contribute to your organization. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Atomic Invest Jan 2022 – Present ### Software Development Engineer II - Buy With Prime @ Amazon Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Greater Seattle Area ### Software Developer - Play Stack @ Hulu Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Greater Los Angeles Area The Play Stack team is responsible for ensuring that Hulu's customers can play back videos – the core functionality of the Hulu service. This touches every aspect of the business – from user-specific rules to content-specific rules to reporting and advertising. The team is responsible for both accessing the video streams and delivering the manifest files that power the in-app players – and delivering video to an iOS device is much different then delivering video to an XBOX One. The team is involved in end-to-end quality of service for playback, from how long it takes to start a video to how reliably the video segments are delivered. ### Quantitative Developer @ Splay Tree Capital Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Palo Alto, California ### Head Course Producer for CSCI 104 - Data Structures and Object Oriented Design @ USC Viterbi School of Engineering Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 ### Software Engineering Intern - Autonomous Robotics @ Beyond Limits Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 ### Teaching Assistant for ITP 303 - Full Stack Web Development @ USC Viterbi Information Technology Program Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 Modern web development techniques and technologies used to create web applications from ground up. Topics include front-end, back-end, and web servers. ### Full Stack Software Development Intern - Messaging Platform @ Hulu Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Santa Monica, California Hulu’s Messaging Platform team is responsible for building the end-to-end messaging pipeline and OMNI-Channel platform to support the communication with our customers, delivering a best in class message experience for Hulu driving the engagement. ### Software Engineering Intern - NetBackup @ Veritas Technologies LLC Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Mountain View, California Veritas NetBackup is an enterprise-level heterogeneous backup and recovery suite. It provides cross-platform backup functionality to a large variety of Windows, UNIX and Linux operating systems. A main feature of NetBackup is Intelligent Data Deduplication and Auto Image Replication (AIR), which is client or server-side deduplication via data deduplication engine that can see into the backup streams. ### Resident Advisor @ Cal Poly University Housing Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Luis Obispo, California Area Resident Advisors (RAs) are the face and voice of University Housing for the 8,400 students living on campus. RAs live with and develop positive relationships with every resident in their community. RAs role model the Mustang Way, promote a safe and comfortable living environment, develop community among their residents and staff, and are committed to every student’s personal and academic success. ### Camp Counselor @ Planet Bravo Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Los Angeles Metropolitan Area ## Education ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Engineering and Computer Science University of Southern California ### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Engineering California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/russellwakugawa --- Source: https://flows.cv/russellwakugawa JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/russellwakugawa/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05