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— Engineer, Software Developer, Husband, Father
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Russell Benzing is a technology leader, educator, creator, and hacker with more than 25 years of experience designing and developing web and application solutions. Currently Russell is a Development Team Lead at CallMiner and founder and co-organizer of The SWFL Hackerspace, with a passion for writing clean code, making it functional, exploring emerging technologies, and sharing knowledge with others. When he’s not immersed in software development, he enjoys time spent with family and occasionally creating a 432 Hz delta blues track.
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01 / ABOUT
THE OPERATOR
Engineer. Software Developer. Strategist. Analyst. Data Scientist. Technician. Artist. Musician. Father. Husband. Friend.
Russell Benzing is a husband, a father, an engineer, a software developer, and technology enthusiast based in Southwest Florida. He leads a development team at CallMiner, where he combines hands-on technical experience with a focus on solving complex problems, building strong teams, and turning ideas into practical solutions. Outside of CallMiner, Russell runs Benzing Domains, providing domain registration and hosting services, and is a co-founder of SWFL Hackerspace, Inc., a community-driven space where people can build, experiment, learn, and share their passion for technology.
Russell has a particular fondness for figuring out how things work—and then finding ways to make them work better. His interests span software, infrastructure, IoT, electronics, radio frequencies, 3D printing, and all manner of hands-on technology projects. He's equally at home writing code, tinkering with hardware, troubleshooting a stubborn system, or going down an unexpected rabbit hole simply because something sparked his curiosity.
Away from the keyboard, Russell enjoys spending time with his wife and two children, typically watching movies or doing outdoor activities and two dogs keep his life interesting. When he's not working or building something, you'll likely find him gaming, exploring the web, or indulging his passion for Audi Engineering. Whether it's software, hardware, automotive, or an obscure technical problem that needs solving, Russell's approach is much the same: stay curious, dig deeper, and see what's possible.
- LANGUAGES
- C#, C, Go, JavaScript, TypeScript, PHP 8+, Python 3
- CLOUD & PLATFORMS
- AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Apple, Microsoft Entra
- FRAMEWORKS
- .NET 8+, React, Next.js, Angular, Node.js, Flask, Ionic, Capacitor
- ARCHITECTURES
- Microservices, Modular Monolith, Event-Driven, Service-Oriented, Client-Server, Peer-to-Peer, Serverless, Distributed Systems
- DESIGN PATTERNS
- Pub/Sub, Event Sourcing, CQRS, API Gateway, Message-Driven, Request-Response, Pipe-and-Filter
- DATABASES
- SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, DynamoDB, SQLite, Elasticsearch, Redis
- DATA
- Relational, Document, Key-Value, Search, Time-Series, Data Warehousing, Data Lakes
02 / INDEX
LIVE WORK
19 ENTRIES
- 01 QR Maker TOOLS Paste a link and get a styled QR code that updates as you type, with logo or emoji centres, colour blends and custom dot shapes, exported as PNG or SVG. It runs entirely in your browser, so your link never leaves your device. CLIENT-SIDESVG
- 02 FcknDelete TOOLS A Windows utility that force-deletes what Explorer refuses to: locked, read-only, protected and over-long paths. It shows which programs hold a file open, can close them or take ownership, and warns before touching drive roots or system folders. RUSTWINDOWS
- 03 ANSI Studio TOOLS A browser-based editor for vintage 16-color ANSI art in the style of 1990s BBS scenes: pixel and character drawing tools, image conversion, and export to .ans, PNG and shareable links. JAVASCRIPTNODE 22+
- 04 Beverage Underground COMMUNITY A BBS for people who like drinks: recipes, products, and live channels. Pull up a stool, share a recipe, rate what you're drinking. Bots here wear a bot badge. REACT
- 05 The Family Safety & Resilience Guide PRODUCTS One calm, practical method for deciding what to do when something goes wrong: at home, on the road, in a storm, in a crowd. Nine steps, ranked by what being wrong costs you. PDF EPUB
- 06 YesChef TOOLS A kitchen-brigade AI harness for Claude Code — token thrift, clean context, autonomous service. TYPESCRIPT
- 07 DJ Rusty TOOLS Browser-based DJ mixer using audio files with dual decks, hot cues, beat sync, loops, and EQ controls. TYPESCRIPT
- 08 WorldProblems Solved. COMMUNITY An open research community developing the world's most rigorous, publicly accessible knowledge base on humanity's most critical challenges — from climate change to pandemic preparedness, AI safety to global poverty. NEXT.JS
- 09 Signal Weaver TOOLS Browser-based SDR interface that receives and demodulates FM, WFM, AM, USB and LSB. TYPESCRIPTHACKRF ONE
- 10 Htaccess Genie TOOLS The perfect .htaccess file generator for your website. An intuitive generator to configure options, preview code, and enhance your site's performance and security. HTML5JS
- 11 Entropy SECURITY An immersive browser-based simulation that teaches real-world penetration testing techniques through engaging gameplay. Learn cybersecurity the right way. HTML5JSNODE 22+
- 12 Aureo PRODUCTS An agile-ready project management platform for modern teams. Aureo empowers teams to manage projects, tasks, sprints, and time tracking all in one place. PHP 8+MYSQL
- 13 Slimbooks PRODUCTS A secure, self-hosted billing and invoice management application. Perfect for freelancers who want complete control over their financial data. REACTTYPESCRIPTSQLITE
- 14 eMiddle Library SECURITY Ultra-secure E2EE .NET library with enterprise-grade encryption. Easy to integrate. Powerful protection. In just a few lines of C# code. C#REACTTYPESCRIPT
- 15 Outrageous Cocktails PRODUCTS Meet your personal AI-powered mixologist — crafting custom cocktails, mocktails, and drink recipes tailored perfectly to your taste. JAVASCRIPTHTML5PHP
- 16 Kanata Group COMMUNITY A sleek, responsive website crafted for Kanata Japan, featuring modern design, optimized performance, and seamless deployment. JAVASCRIPTHTML5
- 17 SWFL Hackerspace COMMUNITY Community management platform for coordinating events, projects, and resource sharing among members. WORDPRESSPHP
- 18 Decoder Decryptor TOOLS An online utility offering a wide array of encoding, decoding, encryption, and decryption tools. JAVASCRIPTHTML5PHP
- 19 DNS Fetcher TOOLS Free DNS and whois utilities for developers and IT professionals. Resolves and reverse-resolves hosts, pulls DNS records, and queries whois for domains and IPs — plus port checks, ping and traceroute.
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03 / ASSISTANT
ZING AI
Russell's assistant. It answers only from what's published here — no guessing, no invented history.
04 / STATUS
NOW
- WORKING
- Development Team Lead at CallMiner, Inc.
- LEARNING
- Fall Semester at Florida Institute of Technology
- BUILDING
- Everything but the kitchen sink.
- ORGANIZING
- SWFL Hackerspace, Inc.
- HOSTING
- Domains and Web Hosting via Benzing Domains
- MAKING
- AI-generated music as 🪐 Sounds, Songs & Frequencies on Suno
- BASED IN
- FLORIDA, USA
- LOCAL TIME
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05 / WHAT'S IN THE WORKS
THE LAB
- 2026 FerriteWRT RUST Open-source router firmware with a memory-safe userspace: init, firewall, Wi-Fi, management API and web UI are all Rust on a hardened Linux kernel, with a default-deny firewall and signed, hash-verified releases. ONGOING
- 2026 Minutiae GO Forensically sound mobile-device acquisition in Go: Android (ADB), iOS (usbmuxd) and USB serial evidence is hashed into a case with a tamper-evident, hash-chained audit log that can be re-verified at any time. ONGOING
- 2026 SlimCityGame TYPESCRIPT · THREE.JS A browser city builder at small-form-factor scale: zoning, roads, power, water and an economy, simulated deterministically in a Web Worker and rendered with instanced Three.js (WebGPU, WebGL2 fallback). ONGOING
- 2026 CMLIS PYTHON Research prototype for CPU-only LLM inference on multi-socket x86: NUMA-aware process binding and prompt-tier routing, benchmarked against a 25% throughput-uplift goal. ONGOING
- 2026 SignalAtlas C# A living, explainable map of the radio spectrum: a receive-only platform that classifies signals, decodes device identity, correlates emitters and flags anomalies, with evidence behind every verdict. ONGOING
- 2026 RustEase TYPESCRIPT A compiler that transpiles a human-readable, English-like language (.re files) into valid Rust, so ownership, borrowing and lifetimes are handled for you. ONGOING
- 2026 DroneCMD PYTHON A Python framework for SDR-based drone communication analysis: capture, demodulate, classify and parse MAVLink and DJI links, with FCC-compliant injection. For lawful security research only. ONGOING
- 2025 Win98 HTML · JAVASCRIPT A Windows 98 desktop clone in vanilla HTML, CSS and JavaScript: draggable windows, a Start menu, an in-memory file system, an Explorer with four view modes, and working Calculator, Minesweeper, Notepad and Paint. LIVE
06 / WORTH YOUR ATTENTION
INTENTRIC
Governed infrastructure delivery
Change infrastructure fast, without taking it on faith.
Your team describes what they need. Intentric turns it into a specific change, already measured against your rules, waiting for a person to approve. Once approved it is applied, confirmed against what was asked for, and kept that way, with a record of every step.
A highly available Postgres database for our EU customers, 100 GB, under $80 a month
- Creates
- Managed Postgres · EU
- Availability
- Highly available
- Monthly cost
- Within your ceiling
- Replaces or deletes
- Nothing
- Measured against your rules
- Spending limit respected
- Waiting on a named approver
- Nothing destructive ships without a person. Not a setting.
- No standing access. No AI agent ever holds a permanent key to your cloud.
- Confirmed, not assumed. What's running is checked against what you asked for.
- Yours to keep. Standard OpenTofu / Terraform code your team can run without them.
BUILT FOR THE PEOPLE WHO ARE THE BOTTLENECK
- Platform engineeringYour standards apply whether or not you're in the room.
- DevOps & infrastructureRoutine changes arrive already checked, so senior review goes where it counts.
- Startup engineeringApproval, evidence and verification from the first change, without the headcount.
Agents propose. Policy and people dispose.
Early access: a small number of design partners are shaping what gets built next. AWS runs end to end today in a sandbox; no real account has been touched yet.
07 / SOUND
Sounds, Songs & Frequencies
08 / CONTACT
SAY HI
CURRENT ROLES
CALLMINER, INC.
Development Team Lead
Leading a development team inside a conversation intelligence platform.
BENZING DOMAINS
Domain & Web Hosting
Domains and hosting for independent builders and small businesses.
SWFL HACKERSPACE, INC.
Co-Organizer & Founder
A maker and technology community in FLORIDA.