Daniel Palmer
Software Engineering Manager at Cohere Health
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Palmer is a seasoned software engineering manager with a decade of experience building and leading remote, cross-functional teams from Charlotte, NC. He combines hands-on backend expertise—especially in container security and image scanning demonstrated by contributions to Anchore’s anchore-engine—with proven people leadership, currently managing a dozen engineers across time zones at Cohere Health. Daniel has repeatedly stepped into technical lead and scrum master roles, driving platform upgrades, multi-tenancy efforts, and improved test infrastructures that measurably increased coverage and developer velocity. He’s pragmatic about operational excellence, having led on-call alerting reductions and customer-facing implementations without sacrificing stability. Comfortable translating product and clinical requirements into technical scope, he coaches engineers to promotion and helped craft an engineering career ladder. With an MS in Computer Science and a background spanning analytics, ETL, and government-facing systems, he brings both breadth and a bias for reliable, secure delivery.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science and Information Systems, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science and Information Systems at University of North Carolina WilmingtonBA Journalism, BA Journalism at Penn State University
Github Skills (8)
docker10
python10
dockers10
vulnerability9
security9
vulnerabilities9
container9
security-vulnerability9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
anchore/anchore-engine
Dec 2020 - Nov 2021
A service that analyzes docker images and scans for vulnerabilities
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:159 reviews, 61 commits, 60 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to the `anchore-engine` repository by adding and modifying the `skopeo_wrapper.py` file to include the "--remove-signatures" argument in multiple `skopeo copy` commands. They also made comments and tidied up code and added several modifications in several files, mainly related to loading policy bundles. This indicates involvement in image analysis and security-related functionalities, specifically concerning docker image scanning and vulnerability analysis.
containerspythondocker-imagedockerhubvulnerabilities
dspalmer99/anchore-engine
Dec 2020 - Nov 2021
A service that analyzes docker images and applies user-defined acceptance policies to allow automated container image validation and certification
Contributions:141 pushes, 61 branches in 11 months
containersdocker-imagedefinedvalidationdocker
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