Jeff Turner
Principal Engineer, Backend at HARMAN International
Beaverton, Oregon, United States
Summary
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SeniorJeff Turner is an experienced software engineer and owner with over two decades of hands-on experience building high-performance, scalable systems and leading engineering teams. He specializes in backend architecture and performance optimization across Node.js, Elixir, and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP), and has repeatedly reduced operational costs and complexity—most notably cutting pod count by 75% through profiling and query fixes. A pragmatic systems designer, Jeff blends API and database design with CI/CD and DevOps practices to streamline delivery, and he mentors engineers through pair programming and code reviews. He contributes to open-source projects like Ghost, improving core publishing reliability and test performance, and now splits time between building a text-based maintenance management startup and principal engineering work on cloud-hosted APIs.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
English, English
Stackoverflow
492reputation
46kreached
26answers
2questions
Github Skills (20)
javascript10
url-encoding10
url-scheme10
url-validation10
url-parsing10
ghost10
nodejs10
url-parser10
testing9
unit-testing9
configuration-management9
unit-test9
metadata-management9
publish8
cms8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
TryGhost/Ghost
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
Independent technology for modern publishing, memberships, subscriptions and newsletters.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 9 PRs, 47 comments in 22 days
Contributions summary:Jeff focused on improving the Ghost publishing platform's core functionality. Their contributions involved fixing bugs and improving the reliability of core helpers, specifically addressing issues related to URL handling, secure connections, and metadata generation. They also worked on optimizing test configurations to improve performance, which indirectly improved the stability and efficiency of the development workflow. These efforts directly impacted how the platform handles crucial tasks like URL generation, meta tags, and data imports.
cmsmembershipspublishingnewslettersjavascript
jtwebman/Ghost
Jan 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:64 pushes, 12 branches in 1 month
typescriptbloggingblogging-platform
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