Eric Turcotte is a Senior Staff Engineer based in St. Louis with over a decade of experience designing full-stack, high-performance distributed systems and platform architectures. He specializes in APIs, developer experience, microservices, big data analytics, and evolutionary architecture, bringing both strategic direction and hands-on implementation to complex problems. At Handshake he drives scalable platform decisions while previously shaping enterprise-grade solutions at Bayer Crop Science. As OWASP STL co-lead he combines security stewardship with practical engineering, reflecting a strong emphasis on secure-by-design systems. Known for bridging deep technical expertise with team leadership, he focuses on making developer workflows and runtime platforms faster and more reliable. He holds a BS in Computer Science from McKendree University and quietly favors pragmatic, measurable improvements over flashy rewrites.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at McKendree University
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Eric Turcotte - Senior Staff Engineer at OWASP Foundation