Cody Palmer
Staff Software Engineer at Teampalmer
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolCody Palmer is a Staff Software Engineer in Denver with 11 years of experience building and modernizing web applications across startups and enterprises. He specializes in Ruby on Rails and React but has a proven track record of choosing the right tools for each problem, from greenfield Django/GraphQL marketplaces to large Rails monoliths. As a consultant and sole-maintainer he scaled a custom business platform to drive revenue growth from $15M to $33M while keeping hosting costs under $1,000/month. He’s delivered high-stakes work at companies like Betterment, Chime, and LendingHome—shipping compliance flows, AI-driven chat integrations, and money-movement systems for large books of loans. Cody also mentors engineers globally through his consulting practice, blending hands-on coding with team enablement and smooth product transitions. Practical, adaptable, and business-focused, he combines deep full-stack skills with real-world outcomes in performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Iowa
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Github Skills (38)
mvc10
rails10
ruby10
braintree10
html10
activerecord10
credit10
ruby-on-rails10
payment-processing9
adyen9
perl-module6
rspec6
formtastic6
github6
capybara6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cdpalmer/debt_payoff_calculator
Feb 2017 - Sep 2021
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
cdpalmer/dotfiles
Apr 2015 - Apr 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes in 3 years
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