Galen Palmer
Senior Software Engineer at Shopify
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolGalen Palmer is a senior software engineer and technical leader with 11+ years building data-driven web applications and leading teams through complex domains. He has progressed from founding a startup to managing Go teams and technical groups at companies like Contrast Security, Philips, Tackle.io, and now Shopify, blending hands-on coding with project and team leadership. Galen specializes in rich, model-driven web apps that translate complex problems into usable interfaces and reliable backends. He holds an MS in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins and pairs that formal training with practical startup and enterprise experience. Based in Baltimore, he brings a pragmatic managerial style informed by deep engineering chops—and, as his GitHub bio hints, a past life as an alpaca farmer that underscores a willingness to tackle unusual challenges.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
BA English, BA English at University of WashingtonJohns Hopkins UniversityWesttown School
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Github Skills (31)
validation10
ruby9
ruby-on-rails9
emberjs8
javascript8
security7
ember7
owasp7
django7
html6
activerecord6
web-development6
period6
contrast6
php6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
palmergs/configs
Feb 2017 - Jun 2022
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 4 months
palmergs/searchcli
May 2015 - Aug 2020
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 3 months
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