Dan Palmer
Software Engineer at Google
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Palmer is a seasoned Software Engineer with 15 years’ experience building backend, mobile and infrastructure systems, currently working on Android SRE/SWE at Google from Sydney. He has a strong track record at Thread leading architecture, cloud migrations to GCP, and shipping GraphQL APIs and iOS integrations, plus hands-on experience modernising payments and observability. An active open-source contributor, Dan has improved widely used Python projects like graphene and tooling such as flake8-isort, focusing on test quality, security hardening, and developer ergonomics. He blends product-driven fast iteration from startup life with rigorous engineering practices from larger platforms, and often surfaces subtle improvements—like Content Security Policy fixes for GraphiQL—that reduce risk in production.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng), Computer Science (with Mobile and Secure Systems), Master of Engineering (MEng), Computer Science (with Mobile and Secure Systems) at University of Southampton
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Github Skills (47)
application-framework10
apim10
javascript10
python10
incident-management10
django10
testing10
app-framework10
raycast10
typescript10
flake10
ui-design10
wpgraphql10
uid10
api10
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
monzo/response
Sep 2019 - Sep 2019
Monzo's real-time incident response and reporting tool ⚡️
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 7 PRs, 27 comments in 23 days
Contributions summary:Dan primarily contributed to the backend logic and infrastructure of the incident response tool. They refactored code, fixed comments, and added features like login requirements. The user also worked on refactoring lambda assignments and creating a manager method, demonstrating an understanding of Django's ORM and design patterns. Further contributions include adding and configuring flake8/isort.
incident-managementincident-responsereportingreporting-toolslack-bot
gforcada/flake8-isort
Jul 2016 - Aug 2017
flake8 plugin that integrates isort
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 12 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Dan primarily focused on improving the quality and robustness of the `flake8-isort` plugin. Their contributions involved writing and modifying tests to cover new code paths, including handling skipped files and ensuring compatibility with different versions of Flake8. They added test cases and updated existing ones to validate correct behavior, increasing test coverage and identifying potential bugs. The user also contributed to a bugfix release.
flake8-pluginpythonflake8isort
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