Colby Palmer
CTO Partner at Quiltster
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolColby Palmer is a seasoned technology leader and entrepreneur with 12 years of experience designing platform architectures, leading engineering teams, and shipping consumer-facing digital products. As CTO and partner at Quiltster he blends hands-on engineering with product strategy to evolve a niche e-commerce and planning platform, recently modernizing its stack and partner integrations. His background spans streaming/OTT launches, developer platforms, and social-commerce marketplaces—having led engineering at Giantsource, Koji, and Kin Community and helped scale systems to millions of users. Colby is comfortable across Python/Django and modern TypeScript microservices, and he frequently steps into both architect and implementer roles. He has a track record of building teams from scratch and retaining talent while delivering pragmatic, cost-conscious infrastructure improvements. Outside work he’s a guitarist, signaling a creative streak that informs his interdisciplinary BFA and product-focused engineering style.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts Interdisciplinary / Digital, Bachelor of Fine Arts Interdisciplinary / Digital at San Francisco Art InstituteUniversity of Colorado Colorado Springs
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (3)
koji6
asciidoc2
documentation1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
colbypalmer/cp-activity-stream
May 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:10 commits, 1 push in 10 months
colbypalmer/cp-project-template
May 2014 - Aug 2017
Contributions:96 commits, 35 pushes in 3 years 4 months
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