Summary
Andrew Palmer is a software development engineer based in Kirkland, WA with 12 years of experience and a recent BS in Computer Science from BYU. He co-founded TwentyFiveLabs, where he shipped TreeForm, a novel tree-based collaborative document editor with a Rust backend and TypeScript real-time sync client, and built BopSwap, a music recommendation and private chat site. Now at Amazon, he brings startup grit to large-scale engineering, blending full-stack UI work in React/Next.js with systems programming in Rust. His background includes low-latency networking and market simulation from crypto exchange work, giving him a strong foundation in performance-sensitive distributed systems. Known for moving quickly from prototype to production, he focuses on robust synchronization, developer ergonomics, and practical UX for complex data structures.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Brigham Young University