Alonzo Turner
Senior Software Engineer at Ferguson
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolAlonzo 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
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts Digital Arts, Bachelor of Arts Digital Arts at Columbia College Chicago
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Github Skills (16)
cms10
joomla-extensions10
php10
vdm10
content-management10
joomla-component10
joomla10
content-management-system9
typehinting6
google-maps6
datepicker1
momentjs1
typescript1
javascript1
bootstrap1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
joomlachicagoloop/MapBuilder
Feb 2012 - Oct 2015
Contributions:120 commits, 8 PRs, 10 pushes in 3 years 9 months
joomla-componentgoogle-mapsjoomlaapiv3
subtext/garbage
Jul 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:4 PRs, 24 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 1 month
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