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JOSHUA TURGEON

Austin,TX

Summary

Dynamic Software Engineer with extensive experience at Red Canary and Giant Eagle, specializing in Ruby on Rails and backend integrations. Proven track record of driving high-impact projects, enhancing user experience, and fostering a collaborative team culture.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience

Work History

Software Engineer

Red Canary
Denver, CO
11.2024 - 05.2025
  • Built and maintained backend integrations and data pipelines for real-time cybersecurity for over 200 enterprise customers.
  • Owned features from concept to deployment within a large-scale Ruby on Rails monolith, facilitating ingestion of billions of events daily.
  • Delivered high-impact integration projects, including secure asset and vulnerability ingestion workflows for Wiz API Polling.
  • Standardized event data formats across services for Microsoft Defender for Cloud Normalization.
  • Enhanced integration onboarding and UX for AWSv2 GuardDuty and ControlTower.
  • Developed API polling and health-check features for CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, GCP, and Trend Micro.
  • Collaborated with product and design teams to ensure reliable, scalable integrations that met customer needs.
  • Participated in on-call rotation while establishing robust test coverage to support production uptime.

Software Engineer III

Hatched Labs / Giant Eagle
Austin, TX
01.2022 - 01.2023
  • Company Overview: Supermarket chain with 200+ stores in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Indiana, and Maryland
  • Promoted to continue building, testing, and maintaining our large-scale grocery shopping application as well as take on leadership, recruitment, and mentorship roles on various projects.
  • Led cross-functional team in building MyPerks Challenges loyalty gamification.
  • Facilitated discovery and design review discussions, designed API architecture and data models, thoroughly documented each phase of the project, created and executed cross-functional testing plans, and followed through with final deployment to production.
  • Improved efficiency and organization by writing our Grocery 2.0 documentation standards to rethink and retool how, when, and where we document our projects.
  • Annual revenue growth from $0 to $500 Million and monthly active user growth from 0 to 400K in less than 3 years from the day we launched our grocery app to production to today.
  • Playing vital roles on the team before launch, through partial adoption, all the way to 100% completion.
  • Grew the team and nurtured a collaborative, learning culture by conducting interviews of incoming engineering candidates, actively recruiting engineers that share our values, and regularly pairing with other engineers for knowledge-sharing and mentorship sessions.
  • Supermarket chain with 200+ stores in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Indiana, and Maryland

Software Engineer II

Hatched Labs / Giant Eagle
Austin, TX
01.2021 - 01.2022
  • Company Overview: Supermarket chain with 200+ stores in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Indiana, and Maryland
  • Promoted to continue building, testing, and maintaining our large-scale grocery shopping application boasting over 265K total lines of code.
  • Encouraged brand loyalty with MyPerks Pro Promotion by building new features to reward users for enrolling or switching their loyalty program.
  • Developed tools for new marketing strategies with our Promo Codes feature.
  • Integrated our API with a 3rd party promotion engine, navigating challenging interactions with our in-house cost estimation API to provide a seamless promo code feature for shoppers at checkout.
  • Improved efficiency and maintainability by transforming RESTful endpoints into GraphQL endpoints in Rails.
  • Supermarket chain with 200+ stores in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Indiana, and Maryland

Software Engineer I

Hatched Labs / Giant Eagle
Austin, TX
01.2019 - 01.2021
  • Company Overview: Supermarket chain with 200+ stores in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Indiana, and Maryland
  • Recruited as an entry-level backend services engineer to help build the Ruby on Rails grocery API which would serve as Giant Eagle's main in-house delivery and pickup shopping application.
  • Helped improve Google search score using SEO Caching with Prerender performing initial proof-of-concept research, experimenting using mockups and staging environments, and creating a written proposal for implementing caching with Prerender.
  • Built two innovative solutions in one by creating a 'virtual' store allowing Google indexing to scan similar content each time as well as allowing users to browse products without logging in.
  • Supermarket chain with 200+ stores in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Indiana, and Maryland

Fullstack Software Engineer

Moove-it
Austin, TX
01.2018 - 01.2019
  • Company Overview: Software Engineering consultancy for custom software solutions
  • Hired to assist with several ongoing projects mainly working on the front-end.
  • Built responsive and elegant frontend applications with technologies such as React, Angular, and Typescript for various projects for multiple clients concurrently such as EliteGrad and Carnegie Technologies.
  • Software Engineering consultancy for custom software solutions

Education

Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering

California Polytechnic State University
San Luis Obispo, CA

Skills

  • Ruby on Rails
  • Relational Databases
  • AWS Services (S3, SQS, SNS)
  • Postgresql
  • Redis
  • Sidekiq
  • RSpec
  • MVC Frameworks
  • GraphQL
  • JavaScript
  • React
  • Typescript
  • Node
  • Integration & Unit Testing
  • Code Reviews
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Pair Programming
  • Mentoring
  • Monitoring & Debugging

Timeline

Software Engineer

Red Canary
11.2024 - 05.2025

Software Engineer III

Hatched Labs / Giant Eagle
01.2022 - 01.2023

Software Engineer II

Hatched Labs / Giant Eagle
01.2021 - 01.2022

Software Engineer I

Hatched Labs / Giant Eagle
01.2019 - 01.2021

Fullstack Software Engineer

Moove-it
01.2018 - 01.2019

Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering

California Polytechnic State University

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