Lamar Jerome Turner

Overview

16 years in software engineering, the last 4 at Fidelity Investments, where I lead the web team. Mentored 11 engineers through their first promotion. Reduced cloud spend on web by 43% in two quarters. Most at home with CSS and web performance. I coach a junior basketball team.

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Experience

1. Director of Engineering

   Feb 2023 - Present
   Fidelity Investments · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Washington, DC
   • Led the move of 200 screens to a shared React component library.
   • Built the experimentation framework 24 product teams use to ship changes safely.
   • Wrote the web performance service that now handles 84 million requests a day.
2. Engineering Manager

   Aug 2019 - Feb 2023
   Bank of America · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Washington, DC
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 25 minutes to under 3.
   • Built the experimentation framework 39 product teams use to ship changes safely.
3. Frontend Engineer

   Dec 2015 - Aug 2019
   Dell Technologies · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Washington, DC
   • Wrote the React service that now handles 56 million requests a day.
   • Brought on-call pages for web down from 29 a week to 2.
4. Frontend Engineer

   Dec 2012 - Dec 2015
   Boeing · 3 yr · Full-time · Washington, DC
   • Shipped 19 launches on the web team without a rollback.
5. Frontend Engineer

   Oct 2010 - Dec 2012
   Lyft · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Washington, DC
   • Cut p99 latency on the web services from 370ms to 119ms.

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Education

1. USC

   BS, Electronics and Communication
   2005 - 2009