Ross Turk
Head Of Marketing And Developer Relations
Windermere, Florida, United States
Summary
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RockstarRoss Turk is a marketing and developer-relations leader with 12 years of hands-on experience building communities, go-to-market programs, and product-led growth for open source and cloud-native projects. As Head of Marketing and Developer Relations at flox and a long-time committer on the OpenLineage project, he blends technical fluency (DevOps, release automation) with a deep understanding of how developer communities adopt and use technology. He has scaled marketing from solo to full teams, driven product launches and partnerships with major vendors, and helped onboard 70 organizations to a data observability product within six months. Ross’s roots in engineering and operations—dating back to SourceForge and early systems administration—help him bridge product, engineering, and community with credibility. He prioritizes creating opportunities for others and excels at process optimization, concise communication, and rapid absorption of technical context. Outside work he channels creativity into music and photography, a reminder that his leadership is as much about culture and storytelling as it is about metrics.
12 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (12)
git10
automation10
github-ci10
bash10
script10
automations10
githubaction-workflow10
cicd10
yaml9
json9
python8
data-lineage7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
OpenLineage/OpenLineage
Oct 2021 - Nov 2022
An Open Standard for lineage metadata collection
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Release Manager
DevOps Engineer & Release ManagerContributions:45 reviews, 11 commits, 26 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Ross primarily focused on automating the deployment and release process for the OpenLineage specification and website. Their work involved modifying the `spec/release.sh` script to publish specification files, including JSON and YML formats, to a new website repository. The commits updated the build path, ensured all changes since the last release were published, and managed the website's commit history. They also addressed logging and import related issues in the core OpenLineage implementation.
data-analyticsdata-managementcqllineagemetadata-management
OpenLineage/workshops
May 2022 - Oct 2022
Openlineage workshops
Contributions:3 reviews, 21 commits, 9 PRs in 4 months
kubernetesmachine-learning
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