Alex Palma
Software Engineer at Iress
Canberra, District of Canberra Central, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Palma is a pragmatic software engineer with 10 years' experience building web interfaces and back-end services, currently contributing to large codebases at Iress after developing beamline control UIs and APIs at the Australian Synchrotron. He works across React, Python (Flask/FastAPI), Docker, Kubernetes, Postgres and messaging systems like Kafka, and brings practical CI/CD, testing and security-aware design to production systems. Comfortable in small agile teams, Alex pairs hands-on implementation with stakeholder collaboration, code review, and mentoring—he’s reviewed candidates and helped shape technical hiring. He has a background in records and data migration automation that honed his attention to detail and automation-first mindset. Curious about physics and user workflows, he often prototypes UX-driven solutions and values helping others as a route to continuous improvement.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National UniversityDiploma of IT, Web Development, Diploma of IT, Web Development at Coder Academy
Github Skills (31)
front-end-development10
javascript9
css9
web-development9
html9
frontend8
django8
ckeditor8
android-application6
rich-text-editor6
wysiwyg6
android-app6
nodejs5
queuing5
contenteditable5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
developingAlex/lakedisappointment
Dec 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:72 commits, 50 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
developingAlex/react-api-stockprice-app
Nov 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:43 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 10 days
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