Brian Palmer
Member Of Technical Staff at Ndea
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Palmer is a Member of Technical Staff with 18 years of experience building resilient backend systems and developer tooling, currently based in Salt Lake City. He combines hands-on engineering with architectural judgment, having led platform and DevOps efforts at companies from Mozy to Lumio and contributed to notable open-source projects like the Sentry Ruby SDK and Docker-on-OSX tooling. Comfortable picking the right tool for the job, he’s worked across languages and stacks to improve reliability, observability, and deployment workflows. Brian is self-directed yet collaborative, thriving in roles where his work has clear impact and responsibility. Outside of software he channels his curiosity into nature exploration and volunteering with environmental and right-to-repair causes, reflecting a practical, systems-oriented mindset beyond code. An understated strength is his knack for making production systems more tolerant of real-world failure modes, as shown by timed backoff and resiliency improvements in production SDKs.
18 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Utah
Github Skills (22)
docker10
domain-name10
proxy10
dockers10
http-proxy10
ruby10
sdk10
dns10
dns-sd10
error-handling10
architecture9
back-end-development9
architectures9
system9
crash-reports9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
codekitchen/dinghy
Nov 2014 - Apr 2019
faster, friendlier Docker on OS X
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & System Architect
DevOps Engineer & System ArchitectContributions:381 commits, 46 PRs, 313 pushes in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily focused on improving the deployment and operation of the Docker-based environment. They introduced and refined several core features, including the HTTP proxy, DNS setup, and NFS server, to enhance the overall system's functionality. Furthermore, they implemented a system upgrade mechanism to ensure the underlying boot2docker VM is up-to-date. Their contributions also included establishing an environment to configure the VM using docker-machine, which significantly streamlined development workflows.
docker-machineos-xdockerfaster
getsentry/sentry-ruby
Dec 2014 - May 2015
Sentry SDK for Ruby
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Brian contributed to the Sentry Ruby SDK, focusing on improving error handling and resilience. They implemented timed backoff mechanisms to prevent overwhelming the Sentry server during failures. Furthermore, they added logging for send failures and implemented a configuration option to disable credit card number sanitization. The contributions primarily involved modifying the client and related state management within the SDK.
sentryerror-monitoringsentry-sdkrubysdk
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