Michael Turner
Staff Software Engineer at Textla
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Turner is a Staff Software Engineer based in New York with 11 years of experience building infrastructure and Kubernetes-focused platforms. He spent the bulk of his career at Blend, evolving from intern to senior engineer and tackling production reliability and cloud-native operations before moving to a staff role at Textla. Michael blends hands-on systems engineering with mentoring experience from his time as Head Teaching Assistant at Cornell, making him effective at translating complex distributed systems into teachable practices. His background includes early full-stack and BI tooling work in C# and Java, giving him a pragmatic appreciation for both developer ergonomics and data-driven decision making. Colleagues describe him as a practical infrastructure engineer who prefers solving hard platform problems quietly but reliably.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, High School High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Walled Lake Central High SchoolBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Cornell UniversityOakland Community College
English
Github Skills (86)
toolbox10
coredns10
gcp10
dns10
dns-record10
api10
sdk10
external-dns10
golang10
cli10
route5310
kubernetes10
go10
aws-route5310
api-server10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mat285/aqi
Nov 2018 - May 2020
Check air quality index and post to slack
Contributions:55 commits, 2 PRs, 51 pushes in 1 year 5 months
indexslack-botair-quality-indexslackair
mat285/echo
Aug 2017 - Aug 2021
A simple echo server to test building dockerfiles.
Contributions:80 pushes, 44 branches in 4 years
testingecho-serverdockerechodockerfiles
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