Douglas Palmer
Senior Software Engineer at JBoss
Enderby, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDouglas Palmer is a Senior Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building reliable backend systems and automating complex build and release workflows. Based in Enderby, BC, he’s been with JBoss since 2010 and previously contributed to enterprise middleware and research projects from PrismTech and Newcastle University. His open-source contributions include build automation for the KIE Drools/jBPM ecosystem and security and UX improvements to Keycloak, showing a strong focus on release automation, versioning, and identity/security hardening. Comfortable across Maven, shell scripting, Git tooling and backend Java work, he blends deep engineering discipline with practical automation that reduces release friction. Quietly, he brings an academic research background to production engineering, marrying rigorous problem analysis with hands-on delivery.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
2:1, Software Engineering, 2:1, Software Engineering at Newcastle University
Github Skills (22)
scripting10
build-system10
cicd10
java10
security10
javas10
automation10
script10
maven10
sh10
automations10
shell10
openid-connect9
oid9
openidc9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
keycloak/keycloak
Jan 2018 - Nov 2022
Open Source Identity and Access Management For Modern Applications and Services
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:72 reviews, 38 commits, 119 PRs in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Douglas primarily contributed to the Keycloak project by implementing changes related to enhancing security, improving user experience, and fixing minor issues. Their work included code modifications to improve secret validation, and updating OTP configuration pages to reflect HOTP. Furthermore, the user addressed a bug related to LDAP connection tests by switching to POST requests and fixed issues concerning the "Back to Application" link. These updates show a focus on refining the user experience and improving the overall system robustness.
oidcauthorizationidentity-and-access-managementaccess-managementsecurity
kiegroup/droolsjbpm-build-bootstrap
Jul 2012 - Oct 2012
The build bootstrap contains the parent pom, guidelines and scripts for Drools, jBPM and OptaPlanner.
Role in this project:Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:19 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Douglas's contributions primarily involve modifying shell scripts related to the build and release process of the Drools and jBPM projects. They updated scripts, specifically `update-version-all.sh` and `git-all.sh`, that appear to handle version updates across multiple repositories and manage Git operations. The commits also include modifications to `mvn-all.sh` which indicates work on the Maven build process. These changes suggest a focus on automating build, versioning, and potentially deployment tasks.
droolsparent-pompomguidelinesbootstrap
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