Cole Turner
Senior Software Engineer at Netflix
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCole Turner is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of professional experience who currently shapes API and UI developer experiences at Netflix, focusing on productivity platforms and non-member playback flows. He has a strong track record of shipping cross-functional product work—driving performance and stability improvements, designing self-service tooling, and leading experiments that boosted conversion and SEO. Previously a Staff Engineer at PayPal, he championed developer ergonomics, GraphQL infrastructure, and automation tooling, and his background spans startups to scale-ups including founding roles and full-stack product work. Known as a public mentor and speaker, Cole blends deep technical craft in distributed systems and front-end engineering with practical product instincts and a knack for turning developer pain points into scalable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
California State University, NorthridgeEagle Rock Jr./Sr. High
English, Spanish
Github Skills (200)
testing10
relay-modern10
wrench10
declarative10
stitch10
relay10
data-driven10
markdown10
javascript10
formatter10
yaml10
graphql-tools10
music10
adobe-xd10
json10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
coleturner/graphql-rails-resolver
Sep 2016 - Jul 2019
A utility to ease graphql-ruby integration into a Rails project.
Contributions:8 releases, 27 commits, 5 PRs in 2 years 10 months
railsrubygraphqlrails-projectgraphql-ruby
Pettier/pettier
Jun 2018 - Oct 2019
Prettier config that randomizes options and arbitrarily switches between spaces and tabs 🙄
Contributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year 3 months
eslintoptionsspacesconfigprettier-config
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