Alonzo Turner
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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SeniorAlonzo Turner is a Senior Software Engineer based in Chicago with three decades of software experience and a 14-year focused career modernizing web applications and architectures. He excels at converting monolithic, legacy systems—especially PHP LAMP stacks—into cloud-ready, efficient platforms using Domain Driven Design, SOLID principles, and patterns like Factory, Facade, and Adapter. At Ferguson he leads modernization efforts, removes architectural bottlenecks by replacing repeated API/DB calls with in-memory strategies, and applies Docker, Kubernetes, Redis, and RabbitMQ for scalable, asynchronous processing. He’s a hands-on mentor who has guided entire teams from procedural PHP to object-oriented design, dependency injection, and normalized data modeling. Pragmatic about performance and developer experience, he balances clean design with operational realities to make codebases easier to maintain and scale. Outside of day-to-day work he brings a long history of client-focused architecture and an ability to survive and recover systems under real-world stress (including past DDOS mitigation and heavy-traffic optimizations).
14 years of coding experience
Github Skills (13)
cms10
php10
content-management10
joomla10
content-management-system9
joomla-component8
google-maps6
datepicker1
momentjs1
typescript1
javascript1
bootstrap1
react1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
subtext/collections
Jul 2019 - May 2025
An iterable collection of verifiable objects or scalar values which can replace arrays for dependency injection.
Contributions:2 releases, 3 PRs, 11 pushes in 5 years 11 months
joomlachicagoloop/MapBuilder
Feb 2012 - Oct 2015
Contributions:120 commits, 8 PRs, 10 pushes in 3 years 9 months
joomla-componentgoogle-mapsjoomlaapiv3
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