Former Docker Engineering Leader Joins TurinTech to Help Scale Artemis - Its AI Engineering Platform for the Agentic Era

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug 7, 2025--

TurinTech, a leader in Evolutionary agentic code platforms, today announced that Michael Parker has joined as its Vice President of Engineering. A veteran in developer tooling and platform engineering, Parker brings decades of experience building scalable systems and leading global teams—including at Docker, where he helped modernize the company’s cloud platform and developer experience.

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Parker joins TurinTech as it prepares to launch Artemis more broadly, bringing agentic AI into the heart of the developer experience—from planning to production. Built around an outcome-first approach, Artemis helps teams guide and validate AI contributions, align work to their goals, and improve code with confidence. It’s a platform designed not just for faster development—but for trusted, measurable results.

Mike Basios, Chief Technology Officer at TurinTech, commented: “We’re building Artemis to help teams get the most out of AI—whether that’s LLMs, agents, or both. It’s not about generating more code—it’s about delivering measurably improved outcomes.”

At Docker, Parker played a key role in the company’s shift from infrastructure to developer-first tooling. He led platform modernization, scaled distributed teams, and oversaw the user experience behind Docker Hub. At TurinTech, he will oversee engineering delivery across Artemis cloud and on-prem deployments, ensuring developers can work seamlessly with AI agents, planning workflows, and outcome-based review tools.

“Agentic development is a powerful shift, but it needs structure to succeed,” said Michael Parker, VP of Engineering. “With Artemis, we’re building the planning and workflow intelligence that lets AI agents work more like real teammates. Developers stay in control, but get meaningful support—from scoping to implementation to validation. It’s about tackling the real-world friction in today’s GenAI tools and making AI genuinely useful in everyday engineering.”

Leslie Kanthan, CEO and Co-founder of TurinTech, added: “Demand for Artemis continues to grow since our limited launch earlier this year. Global enterprises like Intel and Taylor Wessing are already engaging, and we’re seeing strong developer interest in our AI-driven engineering platform. With Michael onboard, we’re excited to accelerate availability and bring the power of Artemis to more teams, faster.”

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About TurinTech

TurinTech builds intelligent systems that evolve and improve code and machine learning models. Its platforms, Artemis for code and evoML for ML pipelines, combine agentic planning, evolutionary algorithms, and real-time validation to deliver measurable, production-ready results. Whether optimizing GenAI output, modernizing legacy code, or tuning ML for performance, TurinTech helps teams move beyond generation to deliver software that’s intelligent by design—trusted, efficient, and built to deliver the results you need with the full power of AI.

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Michael Parker has joined TurinTech as its Vice President of Engineering

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — JuJu Watkins made the most of her brief trip to the USA Basketball senior national team camp.

While she wasn't able to participate in the on-court activities because the Southern California star is still recovering from an ACL injury she suffered last March, Watkins saw the invitation as an opportunity to grow her leadership abilities.

“It’s enough just being (here) and feeling the energy, that’s mostly what I’ve picked up on,” the reigning AP Player of the Year said. “Hearing everyone’s voices, the communications, the leadership, it’s something that you can see automatically. It brings up your standards, so I’ll definitely be taking some of these lessons back to USC to continue to grow as a leader and a player.”

Watkins was able to get up a few stationary shots with coaches after practice was over, which was a positive step in her rehab.

“Whatever I can do, I am trying to maximize that,” she said.

Watkins had announced in September that she would miss the entire college season to give her full attention to rehab. She said Friday that she had tried to put off the decision whether to play for as long as possible, but in the end she “had to come to terms with where I was at. Getting over that mental curve has been the biggest thing."

U.S. coach Kara Lawson said it was important that Watkins, who will be a vital part of the team in the future, to attend the camp.

“We wanted her here ... I think you can see that there’s a great deal of talent there, and that’s somebody that is going to be in the conversation, obviously, in the future,” Lawson said. “We were really intentional about inviting her here and having her be a part of it. I think there’s great value in having her observe and be around the group, and then just the connectivity."

Watkins was only around on Thursday and Friday because she returned to Los Angeles for the 16th-ranked Trojans' game against No. 1 UConn on Saturday.

Being at camp gave her a chance to connect in person with Paige Bueckers. Watkins said Bueckers has been great in helping her with her ACL rehab. Bueckers missed the 2022-23 season with her own ACL tear.

“She’s been checking on me every couple months. Great person,” Watkins said. "So to be here with her, and see her kill it, and see her on the other side of it, it’s very inspiring. She’s just helped me throughout the process of sending the texts, checking in on me, that’s meant a great deal.”

Watkins said she had always wanted to be part of the senior team. The Olympics are in her hometown of Los Angeles in 2028.

“It’s always been a dream of mine to be in this atmosphere, so to live out those dreams, even though it looks different, I’m still blessed to be here,” she said.

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Juju Watkins speaks to the media after a training camp for the U.S women's national basketball team, Friday, Dec. 12, 2025, in Durham, N.C. (AP Photo/Matt Kelley)