Mark Turner is a seasoned engineering leader with 17 years building cloud-native platforms and PaaS products, currently driving engineering at Render and co-founding TZZM from Portland, Oregon. He specializes in high-performance container scheduling and execution, spanning kernel-level Linux containerization and networking to web front ends and CLIs, and has helped evolve Heroku into a leading platform. Mark has held senior architecture and principal engineering roles at Heroku, Salesforce, Fastly and AT&T, combining deep systems expertise with product-minded execution. An active contributor to the Heroku CLI (notably adding Spaces/VPC peering and vpn:connections features), he blends hands-on coding, DevOps, and platform design. Colleagues describe him as someone passionate about changing how teams ship software, with a knack for translating low-level systems work into customer-facing tools.
17 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
AAS Computer Information Systems, AAS Computer Information Systems at Central Oregon Community College
Contributions:26 commits, 7 PRs, 6 pushes in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Mark contributed to the Heroku CLI by making changes to the core functionality and adding support for new features related to Heroku Spaces, such as peering. The user implemented code changes that focused on the CLI commands for managing Heroku spaces, including updates to the whitelist, and adding support for VPC peering. They also added the new vpn:connections command, along with new tests and functionality in the library.
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