Jim Turnquist
Director Of Technical Operations
Excelsior, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolJim Turnquist is a Director of Technical Operations with over 10 years of recent hands-on software engineering and leadership experience, and a multi-decade background in firmware, networking, and cloud-native services. He architects extensible, cross-language stacks (Go, C++, Python, JavaScript) and built Boon Logic’s cloud analytics product Amber, deploying it across AWS, Azure, and Oracle Cloud while authoring multi-language SDKs. Jim combines developer-first leadership—mentoring distributed teams in the U.S. and India and establishing Agile CI/CD practices—with operational rigor, having spearheaded his company’s ISO 9001 certification. He contributed to the RackHD open-source project, improving test infrastructure and configuration handling, reflecting a focus on robust automation and testability. Comfortable from management planes down to data/control planes, he thrives on new technical challenges and practical, auditable solutions. Based in Excelsior, MN, he brings a pragmatic blend of systems-level depth and product-focused delivery.
10 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Bethel University
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Github Skills (32)
python10
testing10
configuration-management10
test-framework10
configuration-file10
devops10
pytest9
automated-tests9
orchestra8
orchestration8
rest-api8
githubaction-workflow8
github-ci8
api-rest8
restful-api8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
RackHD/RackHD
Nov 2016 - Sep 2017
RackHD™ provides hardware management and orchestration services
Role in this project:
Full-stack & DevOps Engineer
Full-stack & DevOps EngineerContributions:54 commits, 68 PRs, 37 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Jim contributed to the integration of fit tests into the RackHD testing framework, updating test files and common libraries. They focused on enhancing the testing infrastructure by modifying the test execution process and integrating configurations, specifically addressing issues with the group option and test directory traversal. The user also made changes to support both old-style and new-style configurations by encapsulating configurations inside mkcfg module and global_config.json. Furthermore, they added the --extra option to run_tests.py to add extra configuration files.
hardwarerackhdhardware-managementorchestrationdell-emc
boonlogic/boon-docs
Apr 2020 - Jul 2025
Boon Logic Software Documentation
Contributions:1 review, 20 PRs, 39 pushes in 5 years 4 months
pdfgeneratorslogicsoftware-documentation
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