Aims Palamountain
Truckee, California, United States
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Top SchoolAims Palamountain is a seasoned engineering leader with 13 years building and scaling high-availability systems, most recently leading Compute & Developer Products and Control Systems engineering at Fastly. He combines deep hands-on experience—from contributing unit and integration tests to major .NET open-source projects like ReactiveUI and Octokit.NET—to strategic leadership of production engineering teams at GitHub and Fastly. Comfortable across backend and infrastructure domains, he has a track record of turning complex distributed problems into reliable, testable solutions. Based in Truckee, CA, he blends an academic background in genetics and computer science with practical software engineering, a combination that first showed in research-grade parallelized algorithms for genomics. Colleagues know him for pragmatic technical judgment and a focus on robustness and edge-case coverage that improves long-term system health. He’s equally at home writing test suites as he is defining roadmaps for developer-facing products.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Genetics, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Genetics, Computer Science at Massey University
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Github Skills (28)
apidoc10
testing10
net10
dotnet-new10
dotnet10
xunit10
asp-net10
api10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
reactiveui10
sdk9
reactive-extensions9
functional-reactive-programming8
octokit-net8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
octokit/octokit.net
Jan 2014 - Mar 2014
A GitHub API client library for .NET
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:69 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Aims primarily focused on developing the statistics client within the Octokit.NET library. Their work included adding new clients and response objects for contributors, commit activity, and code frequency APIs. They implemented these clients, updated method signatures, and added integration tests to ensure the proper functioning of the new functionalities. The changes involved modifications across multiple project files to add the new features.
api-clientapidotnetoctokit-netclient-library
reactiveui/ReactiveUI
Feb 2014 - Feb 2014
An advanced, composable, functional reactive model-view-viewmodel framework for all .NET platforms that is inspired by functional reactive programming. ReactiveUI allows you to abstract mutable state away from your user interfaces, express the idea around a feature in one readable place and improve the testability of your application.
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:18 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Aims's contributions primarily focused on improving the robustness of the `ReactiveUI` framework by adding and enhancing unit tests. They addressed potential issues by throwing exceptions in specific cases like null arguments in `AddRange`, `InsertRange`, and `RemoveAll` methods. These changes include modifications to existing test files and the addition of new test cases to cover edge scenarios.
reactiveuimvvmexpressmutableios
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