Justin Turner
President at Silicon Development
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolJustin Turner is a seasoned software executive and AI-focused architect based in Austin, Texas, with 14 years of experience delivering Rails, C#, and JavaScript systems across startups and scale-ups. He currently serves as President of Silicon Development, an engineering firm specializing in Rails, AI, and SaaS, leading full-cycle product development from planning to production and support. His leadership history includes CTO roles at ELE.AI and Lark Euro, where he built and scaled teams (up to 40 in DevOps), established agile processes, QA, and operations practices to launch multiple market-leading web products. Justin contributes to open source, notably enhancing Rails and AI tooling, and he improved the Restforce Ruby client for Salesforce with a get_updated API and timezone fixes. He holds AI studies from Columbia University and a computer science background from UTSA, blending academic depth with hands-on leadership across a broad technology stack.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of Texas at San AntonioArtificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence at Columbia University in the City of New York
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (15)
rspec10
api-design10
ruby10
time-zone9
zones9
timezone9
zone9
nunit6
iso86016
datetime6
html6
unit-testing6
css6
datetime-format6
testing6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
restforce/restforce
Aug 2015 - Nov 2015
A Ruby client for the Salesforce REST API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 3 PRs, 8 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Justin primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Restforce Ruby client. Their work focused on enhancing the API by adding a `get_updated` call, including both the implementation in the `api.rb` file and associated testing using the `api_spec.rb` and integration tests. Further contributions involved refining existing code and correcting time zone issues. This suggests a focus on expanding and refining core features related to interacting with the Salesforce REST API.
apiruby-clientrubysalesforce-rest-apisalesforce
web-connect/YoutubeDL-Material
Jun 2020 - Jul 2020
Self-hosted YouTube downloader built on Material Design
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes, 5 branches in 20 days
downloaderhostedyoutubeyoutube-dlmaterial-design
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