Ben Turner
CTO at Galapag.us
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolBen Turner is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 14+ years building secure, scalable systems across the full stack—from CSS/JS front-ends and SPAs to Go/Python backend services, RESTful APIs, and cloud deployments on GCE/AWS. He has deep operational and security chops (pen testing, SOC 2 Type II practices, FinOps) gained while leading engineering teams that collected and normalized high-volume, sensitive data from the deep and dark web. As Head of Engineering/CTO at Cloudburst and former Principal Engineer/Director at Flashpoint, he blends hands-on engineering, hiring and org design, and technical writing to institutionalize quality and cost-aware practices. He founded Galapag.us, a persistent identity/reputation project that spans frontend, backend, and data work, and has repeatedly delivered analytics and data-pipeline solutions (dbt, Terraform, Looker) at scale. A former Arabic voice interceptor with Top Secret/SCI experience, he brings unusual domain expertise in signals, threat analysis, and adversarial thinking to product and security design.
14 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
MPS Interactive Telecommunications Program, MPS Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York UniversityPlano East Senior High SchoolAA Modern Standard Arabic, AA Modern Standard Arabic at Defense Language InstituteMS Foreign Service, MS Foreign Service at Georgetown UniversityBA Classics, BA Classics at The University of Texas at Austin
English, Arabic
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Github Skills (11)
scrapy6
python6
rds-mysql2
flask2
translation2
amazon1
elastic1
aws1
rds1
mysql1
database1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Xeus/newslint-server
Nov 2013 - Dec 2014
Contributions:81 commits in 1 year
Xeus/Hermes-Ordering-System
Apr 2012 - May 2012
Contributions:6 commits in 11 days
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