Lee Turner
Senior Software Engineer at Brighton Kotlin
Greater Brighton and Hove Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolLee Turner is a Senior Software Engineer with over two decades of experience delivering scalable Java and Kotlin microservice architectures, currently contributing to WireMock and previously leading backend engineering at Crunch. He blends pragmatic test-driven development, stringent release management, and DevEx improvements—having built local WireMock-based POCs and developer tooling to accelerate payments work at Crown Agents Bank. A Kotlin/JVM community builder who founded Brighton Kotlin and Brighton JUG, Lee is also an AppSec-minded Snyk Ambassador and open-source contributor who has enhanced the widely used WireMock HTTP mocking tool. Comfortable as a hands-on individual contributor or technical lead, he champions coding standards, mentoring, and continuous integration to raise developer productivity and product reliability.
13 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Information Systems, BSc, Information Systems at University of LeedsNewbold Community SchoolBachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Studies, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Studies at Chesterfield College
English
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Github Skills (15)
wiremock10
javas10
http10
api10
apidoc10
java10
mocking10
testing9
rest9
json8
xml7
jsonpath6
wiremock-standalone6
artifact6
mockito6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
wiremock/wiremock
Aug 2023 - Mar 2025
A tool for mocking HTTP services
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:38 reviews, 148 PRs, 165 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Lee primarily contributed to enhancing the WireMock HTTP mocking tool. Their work involved adding functionality for returning application version information through a new admin endpoint and the standalone command-line interface, requiring the creation of version-related files and classes. Furthermore, the user addressed bugs, and made changes to the core logic, including tests, and updating error messages. These changes included refactoring code and implementing enhancements related to response templating and the handling of multipart requests.
wiremockmock-serverstubbingxmltesting
leeturner/BlinkyTapeTestWatcher
Apr 2021 - Dec 2024
A Junit 5 TestWatcher API implementation that hooks up your tests to a BlinkyTape LED strip
Contributions:15 PRs, 29 pushes, 21 branches in 3 years 8 months
apiblinkyjunit-5testingled
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