Joseph Atkins-turkish
Founding Software Engineer at InfraHub
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoseph Atkins-turkish is a founding software engineer based in San Francisco with 16 years of cross-disciplinary experience spanning game development, full-stack web, embedded electronics, ML, and now data engineering and analytics. He excels in SQL, Python, Go, and TypeScript, and focuses on making data discoverable, secure, and well-governed—prioritizing a handful of high-quality dashboards over noisy outputs. At companies from Brex to Even he built data platforms, lineage and documentation tooling, and integrated Amundsen to lift analyst productivity; he has contributed to Amundsen’s ingestion stack by modernizing loaders and transformers. Comfortable shipping both product-facing features and infrastructure, he combines hands-on coding with a knack for improving developer experience and operational workflows. Notably, his background in embedded systems and game dev gives him a practical, systems-level instinct for performance and tooling that surfaces in his data work.
16 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Electronic Engineering with Artificial Intelligence, Masters Electronic Engineering with Artificial Intelligence at University of Southampton
English
Github Skills (11)
neo4j10
filesystem10
file-operations10
python10
fileio10
data-engineering10
transformers9
data-catalog8
unit-testing8
testing8
metadata7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
amundsen-io/amundsendatabuilder
Aug 2020 - Jan 2021
Data ingestion library for Amundsen to build graph and search index
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 6 commits, 11 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Joseph primarily contributed to the data ingestion library for Amundsen by addressing dependencies, updating documentation, and fixing bugs. They removed Python 3.5 support, demonstrating a focus on code maintenance and upgrades. Key contributions included refactoring and implementing multi-yield transformers, and enhancing the file system neo4j CSV loader.
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amundsen-io/amundsen
Aug 2020 - Jan 2021
Amundsen is a metadata driven application for improving the productivity of data analysts, data scientists and engineers when interacting with data.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Data Engineer
Back-end Developer & Data EngineerContributions:6 commits, 1 comment in 5 months
Contributions summary:Joseph contributed to the Amundsen metadata platform by addressing dependencies, updating documentation, and removing support for older Python versions. They fixed a critical bug related to the FsNeo4jCSVLoader, ensuring data integrity during CSV loading. Furthermore, the user implemented multi-yield transformers, enhancing data transformation capabilities within the project.
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