Wren Turkal
Chief Logistical Witch at YMATYT Holdings, LLC
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolWren Turkal is a seasoned site reliability and DevOps leader with 16 years of experience building and operating large-scale infrastructure across Google, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. A Linux and open source specialist, they excel at automation, cloud architecture, capacity management, and onboarding teams to SRE practices that measurably improve operational maturity. Wren has led cross-functional initiatives from replacing key data-store infrastructure to adding Rust support in internal build and CI systems, and has presented at SREcon and advanced AWS meetups. Comfortable in both massive fleets and greenfield startups, they bridge the chasm between no-production infra and production at scale. Beyond core SRE work, Wren contributes to the Rust ecosystem (including Redox OS) and runs a small entrepreneurial venture where they apply technical solutions to real-world logistics and retail operations. Based in South San Jose, they prioritize asynchronous contact and mentoring engineers to increase skills and productivity.
17 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School, High School, High School at Brentwood High SchoolDiploma, High School, Diploma, High School at Christian Brothers High SchoolBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Christian Brothers University
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
firmware10
facebook-live10
3d10
remote-execution10
operating-system10
zpl10
infrastructure-management10
html10
redox-os10
bazel10
pull-parser10
jlink10
zeromq10
freebsd10
directshow10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
wt/gatsby-plugin-google-gapi
Apr 2020 - Nov 2023
A Gatsbyjs plugin for Google APIs
Contributions:3 PRs, 22 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 8 months
gatsbyjsgoogle-apigoogleapis
wt/youremoreamazingthanyouthink_website
May 2018 - Aug 2019
The website of YouAreMoreAmazingThanYouThink.com
Contributions:27 commits, 1 PR, 25 pushes in 1 year 2 months
javascript
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