Jack Palmer
Staff Engineer at Spotify
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJack Palmer is a Staff Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable full-stack systems, currently shaping developer-facing products at Spotify after leading iPlayer engineering at the BBC. He combines deep JavaScript/TypeScript and Node/React expertise with cloud-native practices (AWS, Docker, microservices, CI/CD) and a TDD-first mindset to deliver reliable production services. Jack is an active open-source contributor to Backstage, improving both frontend UX and backend host discovery—highlighting a focus on developer experience as well as end-user features. He mentors junior engineers and drives best-practice adoption across teams, translating product requirements into maintainable architecture. Based in Leeds, he pairs a BSc in Computer Science from Loughborough with practical experience shipping complex web platforms in large enterprise environments.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc, Computer Science, 2:1, Bsc, Computer Science, 2:1 at Loughborough University
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Github Skills (24)
javascript10
typescript10
backstage10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
portal10
typescripts10
react10
jes9
back-end-development9
configuration-management9
jtest9
jestjs9
backend9
developper9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
backstage/backstage
May 2022 - Dec 2022
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:40 reviews, 11 commits, 15 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Jack primarily contributed to the Backstage developer portal, implementing and improving frontend components and backend functionality. Their work included adding warnings for potential configuration conflicts, fixing UI bugs related to layout and display, and adding tests for existing UI elements. The user also enhanced the backend by adding HostDiscovery functionality and implementing configuration updates.
portalsinfrastructureopen-platformdxbackstage
spotify-portal-demo/demo-website
Apr 2024 - Oct 2024
This is demo-website
Contributions:63 PRs, 68 pushes, 59 branches in 5 months
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