Andrew Turner
Staff Platform Engineer
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Turner is a Staff Platform Engineer with 14 years of hands-on experience building and refactoring backend systems, currently delivering platform solutions from Boston. He thrives on goal-driven work, often setting short-term targets and iterating quickly to drive efficiency—whether optimizing code or redesigning architectures. His open-source work includes a substantial .NET refactor of a Slack API client that added robust WebSocket handling and RTM message features, reflecting a knack for practical API and realtime engineering. Comfortable researching unfamiliar domains and asking targeted questions when needed, he balances independent execution with collaborative problem-solving. Colleagues know him for friendly technical competition that pushes performance and clarity in shared codebases.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
LaPorte High School
English
Github Skills (11)
net10
asp-net10
dotnet10
websocket10
api10
csharp10
apidoc10
dotnet-core10
json-serialization10
async9
asynchronous9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Inumedia/SlackAPI
Jun 2014 - Aug 2022
.NET Implementation of the Slack team communication platform API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & API Developer
Back-end Developer & API DeveloperContributions:32 reviews, 174 commits, 125 PRs in 8 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily focused on refactoring and restructuring the Slack API .NET implementation. They renamed classes, updated namespaces, and introduced a new architecture with `SlackSocket` and `SlackSocketClient` to handle WebSocket communication. The user implemented features for sending and receiving messages via WebSockets, and added the ability to bind and unbind callbacks for WebSocket events. Additionally, they added functionality to interact with Slack's RTM API, including the ability to send and delete messages.
apidotnetapi-platformslack-teamcommunication
crrio/maplestory.design
Jun 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:214 commits, 5 PRs, 80 pushes in 1 year 2 months
maplestoryjavascriptsimulationsimulatorweb-simulator
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