James Turner
Software Engineer at Meta
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Turner is a seasoned polyglot software engineer with 12 years’ experience building and leading teams across startups and large tech firms, currently at Meta in London. He has held senior technical and leadership roles—from CTO and Managing Director to Principal Data Engineer and Lead Technical Architect—demonstrating fluency in both product-focused startups and data-driven enterprise environments. James prefers incremental change with disciplined refactoring, mentors junior engineers, and has repeatedly guided teams through complex technical challenges. His background spans consumer platforms (Depop, eBay), media and publishing (BBC, Reach plc), and scalability at scale at Meta, giving him a pragmatic lens on architecture and delivery. Notably, he combines hands-on engineering with people leadership, having run his own company (phpNinjas) while later shaping data and platform strategies. Based in London, he holds a BSc in Computer Science from Loughborough and brings a practical, tool-agnostic approach to solving hard engineering problems.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BSc., Computer Science, BSc., Computer Science at Loughborough UniversityMaths, Chemistry, Economics, Maths, Chemistry, Economics at The Judd School
Github Skills (69)
sql10
java10
sql-query9
docker-compose9
harvest9
big-data9
presto9
database9
hadoop9
crawler9
spark9
hive9
trino8
golang8
python8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
james-turner/farmdashboard
Mar 2021 - Jun 2021
Harvest statistics dashboard
Contributions:116 pushes, 6 branches in 3 months
statisticsharvestdashboard
phpninjas/ReCaptcha
Dec 2014 - Sep 2017
Contributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 2 years 9 months
roboticsrosrobot
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