Joseph Palermo
Investor at Westchester Angels
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoseph Palermo is an investor and technologist with 16 years of engineering and business-development experience bringing disruptive broadband, optical and data-center technologies to market. He’s led product launches from silicon photonics and FPGA-based QAM systems to PON, cable headend equipment and Video-on-Demand platforms, coupling deep hardware and systems design with go-to-market strategy. Comfortable in both hands-on engineering and boardroom diligence, he has run CI/CD and deployment improvements in major open-source Cloud Foundry projects, demonstrating an operational focus on reliable delivery. As Director of New Business Development he introduced analytics-driven market sizing and phase-gate product management that materially reduced costs and supply-chain risk. Now investing through Westchester Angels, he performs technical due diligence and valuation across ML/AI, fabrication and telecom startups, backing companies where complex hardware meets scalable business models. His combination of FPGA/optical design chops, sales-facing field experience and formal business analytics (MS, MBA) makes him especially effective at de-risking technically ambitious bets.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Business Analytics, 3.939/4.0, Master of Science, Business Analytics, 3.939/4.0 at Syracuse University - Martin J. Whitman School of ManagementMaster of Science, Electrical Engineering, concentration in DIgital Signal Processing, Master of Science, Electrical Engineering, concentration in DIgital Signal Processing at Manhattan CollegePost Graduate Course - Network Protocols, Post Graduate Course - Network Protocols at New York University - Polytechnic School of Engineering
Github Skills (50)
bosh10
unit-testing10
docker10
cloud-foundry10
apidoc10
testing10
configuration-management10
bash10
web-deploy10
dockers10
concourse10
ruby10
cf-cli10
release-management10
go10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
cloudfoundry/bosh
May 2014 - Jan 2023
Cloud Foundry BOSH is an open source tool chain for release engineering, deployment and lifecycle management of large scale distributed services.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 releases, 57 reviews, 95 commits in 8 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Joseph's contributions primarily center around enhancing the BOSH Director's functionality and improving the deployment process. They introduced features for verifying remote releases and ensuring their integrity through SHA1 checks, directly impacting the deployment reliability. Additionally, the user's work involved modifications to the BOSH CLI and integration specs, alongside changes in the Metrics Collector, which suggests a focus on streamlining the director and improving its operational characteristics. The commits also demonstrate a focus on improving the reliability of the systems through automated tests and infrastructure updates.
foundryboshpcfchainengineering
cloudfoundry/bosh-cli
May 2021 - Jan 2023
BOSH CLI v2+
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:12 reviews, 23 commits, 21 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Joseph primarily contributed to the continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines for the BOSH CLI project. Their work included updating the Concourse pipeline configuration, modifying build scripts, and streamlining the build process. Furthermore, the user addressed issues by updating dependencies and modifying test configurations. These actions show that the user's primary focus was automating the build, test, and deployment processes.
boshcloud-foundrycloudfoundrypcfbosh-cli
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