He lives in Brooklyn, New York, where he is CTO at Smartrr and an advisor at Access Now.
Before that, he was co-chair of the Velocity conference,[1] led engineering at Sotheby's, startup advocacy at Microsoft, was founder and CTO at Empatico,[2] CTO at Kickstarter, VP of Engineering at Venmo and VP of Services at Docker.
[3] He was also VP of Technology Operations for the open-source company Puppet Labs.
Turnbull was the Treasurer, a member of the papers committee and coordinated the mini-conference program at linux.conf.au 2008.
[18] He is a member of Linux Australia, including President in 2010 and sitting on the Executive Council in 2008.