Neil P Turley
| (801) 854-8659 | South Jordan, Utah, US
EXPERIENCE
Copia Automation 2021-02 — Present
Staff Engineer2026-08 — Present
Engineering Manager2022-10 — 2026-08
Software Engineer2021-02 — 2022-10
  • Joined pre-revenue as the 4th employee; company has since grown past $10M ARR
  • Led the team that delivered rendering for 15+ graphical IEC languages
  • Implemented conversion and initial rendering for Siemens TIA Portal and Codesys
  • Reverse engineered three proprietary binary project file formats
  • Launched the initial Copia Desktop product
  • Managed the source control team of up to 6 engineers
  • Founded the company-wide technical architecture guild
  • Created the team's strategy for AI-assisted development
  • Led research spikes on high-risk projects and guided the team through two reorgs
  • Partnered with product managers to plan the product roadmap
  • Helped found the core applications team and onboarded its new members
  • Ran standups, retros, sprints, engineering meetings, on-call, and technical interviews
McCoy Global Inc - Lead Software Engineer 2019-11 — 2021-02
  • Maintained embedded microcontroller firmware (C)
  • Developed Data Acquisition/Reporting Software for Pipe Drilling Sensors (LabVIEW)
  • Managed AWS resources and build pipelines as code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
  • Implemented HTTP API endpoints that accessed database (C#, DynamoDB, AWS)
National Instruments, RIO Software - Staff Software Engineer 2014-01 — 2019-11
  • Wrote FPGA System Integration for Five RIO Product Lines (LabVIEW, VHDL)
  • Designed and Implemented a High Speed Data Transfer API (LabVIEW, VHDL, C++)
  • Ported LabVIEW FPGA RIO Driver to Zynq Platform (C++)
  • Proposed and Developed Hardware Anti-Cloning Mechanisms (VHDL, C++)
BYU Nuclear Physics Research Group - Lab Assistant 2010-10 — 2013-06
  • Writing Data Acquisition Software (C#, C)
  • Designing Digital Circuits and Layout (Mentor Graphics)
EDUCATION
Brigham Young University 2008 — 2014
Bachelor - Computer Engineering
PROJECTS
Latchup 2018: Netlistsvg (https://github.com/nturley/netlistsvg)
  • Presented schematic visualization software; GitHub repo has 840+ stars
NIWeek 2017: Host Memory Buffer
  • Introduced a low-latency DMA interface for optimizing control loop determinism