Kevin Turkington

Full Stack Software Engineer

Seattle, WA

Frameworks / Tools

Airflow, PySpark, React, React-Native, NodeJs, Docker, Kubernetes, Postgres, DynamoDb

Programming Languages

Golang, TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, SQL

Work Experience

Insights & Analytics team

Created v1 ETL pipelines for existing and upcoming Compass products
Cross collaborated with teams across Frontend, Backend, and infrastructure within the Compass ecosystem.
On-boarded and led engineering on airflow data pipelines.

Aided in the design and development of full stack applications that improved the customer experience.
Improved the developer experience by creating new workflow tools and knowledge bases.
Mentored new engineers by pair programming and familiarizing them with Nordstrom's engineering standards.

Provided design and test plans on projects for the Oregon Department of Transportation and Smarter Balanced.

OSU Linux Users Group, OSU App Club

Refactored, instrumented, and provided integrations for Nordstrom's Canada market. Focused on developing the fulfillment processes of Canadian e-commerce including full-line stores, drop shipping, and warehouses.
Reduced log capacity by 10% from ~100gb per day to ~90gb using random sampling.

Aided feature designs of an enterprise NodeJs / React-Native project with the goal of optimizing employee fulfillment process of e-commerce orders.
Simplified offline data synchronization workflows for fulfillment of e-commerce orders using Redux and Redux-offline.
Increased load capacity by 50% of our mobile application by integrating virtualized lists.
Re-configured backend services from JavaScript to TypeScript using Babel and Webpack

Refactored and added features to the Smarter Balanced websites used by 4700 educators and 6,000,000+ students across the United States to compare individual students’ academic performance on a national level.
Conformed the site to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0.

Won 6th out of 45 teams overall nationwide, and placed third overall for rover design.
Led the design and programming of the rover software while also conducted educational outreach sessions with schools.
Designed CLI wrapper in Python for Pololu Dual MC33926 Motor Driver for Raspberry Pi

The only open source cross-platform addon manager for World of Warcraft™ built in Electron and React frameworks. Serves as a universal decentralized software distribution proof of concept.
Implemented Clean and Hexagonal architecture patterns.