Joe Turgeon
Lead Developer At Educational Technology Innovations
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoe Turgeon is a Lead Developer and experienced software leader with 12 years building and directing engineering teams across higher education, consulting, and startups. Based in Minneapolis, he currently leads Educational Technology Innovations at the University of Minnesota while running his own consulting practice, blending hands-on development with strategic delivery. His background spans architecture and director-level roles at Phase2 and CTO experience at Mentor Spaces, demonstrating strength in cloud-native back-end systems and team leadership. An active open-source contributor, he has improved serverless tooling and DevOps workflows—refactoring an AWS Lambda/SES forwarder for better testability and Node.js compatibility. Trained in philosophy, he brings a pragmatic, analytical approach to complex technical and organizational problems.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Github Skills (9)
mochajs10
aws-lambda10
nodejs10
javascript10
aws-ses10
cicd10
testing10
docker4
dockers4
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
arithmetric/aws-lambda-ses-forwarder
Feb 2016 - Sep 2022
Serverless email forwarding using AWS Lambda and SES
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:13 releases, 3 reviews, 99 commits in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Joe primarily focused on refactoring the AWS Lambda SES Forwarder project for improved configurability, testability, and maintainability. They implemented Mocha tests, package.json, eslint, and Travis CI configuration to enhance the project's quality and development workflow. The user also addressed issues such as incorrect Reply-To header formatting and added support for features like domain wildcard and plus sign email address matching in the forwarding logic. Finally, the user made a number of changes to the configuration and testing to allow the project to be compatible with Node.js 4.3 and beyond.
aws-lambdaemailserverlessaws-sesforwarding
arithmetric/bridges
Aug 2013 - Nov 2013
Contributions:40 commits, 3 pushes, 1 tag in 2 months
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