I am Joel M Turner

My professional role is Senior Product Engineer (Frontend) at Sprinklr, where I help support the visualization products. Through this avenue, I have been able to contribute to some great projects such as the World Health Organization Covid-19 Dashboard, the Covid HQ Africa Dashboard, and Sprinklr.com.

How I Got Here

I grew up in the beautiful city of Laramie, Wyoming. After graduating with a degree in graphic design in 2005, I spent my summers living on glaciers in Alaska. It was there that I started to teach myself how to code, writing PHP and CSS on paper and entering it into my computer during my days off in town.

Fast forward a few years and I'm now working as a developer for Sprinklr, where I get to use awesome technologies like TypeScript, React, MobX, and Gatsby to build amazing projects. In my free time, I love dabbling in hand lettering and illustration, and I share my work on Instagram. I even have my own illustration page where I showcase my "best of" creations.

Overall, I've had a really fun and interesting journey so far, and I can't wait to see where my love of coding takes me next!

Now

I now live with my wife, Suzanne Turner, our two children, and our two dogs in Portland, Oregon.

Feel free to connect with me on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn

Fun side projects

I love food and Portland doesn't disappoint! Portland Mercury puts on a few different food weeks were there are a number of options. I wanted a way to quickly filter those options so I started creating my own version of what I found helpful.

• PDX Food Weeks - using existing data from Portland Mercury to easily filter by dietary preference and location