Andy Palmer
Director Of Technology at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorAndy Palmer is a seasoned technology executive with nine years in senior leadership and over two decades of hands-on systems and cloud experience, currently directing AWS Specialist Architects and Principal Technologists in San Diego. He led Intuit’s cloud migration and organizational transformation—driving TurboTax Live and QuickBooks Live growth—and has repeatedly run large engineering organizations through complex public cloud and security initiatives. Previously he built and scaled infrastructure, security, and operations teams at Shutterfly and JPMorgan Chase, blending strategic architecture with operational rigor. Andy contributes to open-source security work in projects like OpenSearch, improving SAML handling, parallel request robustness, and index permissions—an indicator of his continued technical depth. His strengths are translating security and cloud architecture into repeatable migration frameworks, automated policy and monitoring tooling, and measurable cost and reliability outcomes. He pairs executive leadership with an uncommon willingness to dive into core backend security fixes.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (11)
javas10
security-compliance10
opensearch10
security-policy10
index-management10
java10
security10
saml9
rest-api9
testing8
git3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
opensearch-project/security
May 2021 - Aug 2021
🔐 Secure your cluster with TLS, numerous authentication backends, data masking, audit logging as well as role-based access control on indices, documents, and fields
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:152 reviews, 43 commits, 68 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Andy's contributions primarily revolve around enhancing the security features of the OpenSearch project. They focused on refactoring settings related to security configurations, renaming prefixes, and adjusting settings in test files. Additionally, the user addressed issues related to SAML role handling and implemented fixes for parallel put requests, enhancing the robustness of the system. Furthermore, the user also fixed index permission problems.
indicesrole-basedloggingrolesecure
andy840314/QANet-pytorch-
Jul 2018 - Oct 2018
A Pytorch implementation of QANet
Contributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 20 pushes in 3 months
pytorchpytorch-implementation
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