Steven Turner
CTO, Cofounder at Jirav
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolSteven Turner is a pragmatic technology leader and cofounder/CTO with 14+ years of experience building product-focused engineering organizations across startups and large enterprises. He founded and scaled Jirav to deliver FP&A tooling while previously leading global engineering teams of hundreds at Alcatel-Lucent and Genesys, blending deep hands-on software experience with executive strategy. Known for shipping practical, tactical solutions that align tightly with long-term product vision, he’s comfortable moving between code, customer support, and board-level decision-making. His background includes founding a software company in the 90s and teaching C++ at Harvard Extension, reflecting a mix of entrepreneurial grit and technical depth. Based in Philadelphia, he also runs Darkhive as founder/CTO, highlighting an ongoing passion for building new platforms.
14 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science & Mathematics, BS Computer Science & Mathematics at College of the Ozarks
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Github Skills (61)
structures10
messaging10
ipc10
multicast10
java-api10
transport9
lists9
udp9
java9
unicast9
tcp9
ros9
java-libraries9
carrier9
whiteboard8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
steveturner/netty-transport-purejavacomm
Feb 2014 - Feb 2017
Contributions:1 release, 10 commits, 3 PRs in 3 years
jnanettypipelineserial
chesapeaketechnology/am-messaging
Jan 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:2 commits, 16 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
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