Joel Palmer
Senior Software Engineer at Joel Palmer, LLC.
San Antonio, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolJoel Palmer is a senior backend engineer with 11 years of professional experience who specializes in Rust, authentication, and secure network systems, currently building authentication experiences at 1Password. He has a deep systems background spanning embedded C, high-performance Rust, and large-scale cloud APIs, and has repeatedly refactored critical C++ codebases to Rust to gain memory safety and performance. Joel designs and ships event-driven, API-first platforms (GraphQL, Node.js, SQL/NoSQL, AWS) and has led teams delivering high-throughput media and routing systems as well as developer-friendly zero-config experiences. He’s applied post-quantum cryptography, PKI, and asymmetric encryption in a high-dimensional data POC, demonstrating an unusual blend of practical systems engineering and forward-looking security work. Based in San Antonio, he combines hands-on coding with architecture and technical screening roles, making him equally comfortable mentoring teams or diving into low-level protocol and network programming. An avid problem solver, Joel often bridges product needs and safety-critical implementations, turning complex requirements into robust, production-ready systems.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics, Mathematics at California State University-San Bernardino
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (103)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
whatsthatsmell/dots
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
Code Smell Dotfiles
Contributions:775 commits, 4 PRs, 636 pushes in 2 years 6 months
luavimrustalacrittytmux
joelpalmer/node-tdd-template
Feb 2020 - Feb 2023
A Node.js project template for TDD practitioners
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
practitionersjs-projectjestnode-jsjavascript
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