Justin Palmer
Senior Software Engineer II - Team Lead at DigitalOcean
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJustin Palmer is a Senior Software Engineer II and team lead at DigitalOcean with over eight years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native web platforms. He progressed from support and operations roles into engineering leadership, blending practical incident-response experience with backend development and team coaching. Justin contributes to notable open-source projects like IPython, where he modernized file-path handling using pathlib—demonstrating attention to code quality and maintainability in widely used tooling. Based in San Antonio, he excels at bridging platform reliability and developer productivity, shipping pragmatic refactors that reduce technical debt. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic problem-solving and clear technical direction across distributed systems and cloud infra. His background in operations gives him a rare empathy for runbook-ready code and systems that are easy to operate in production.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts and Sciences - AAS Computer Programming, Associate of Arts and Sciences - AAS Computer Programming at San Antonio College
Github Skills (5)
ipython10
pathlib10
python10
notebook4
jupyter4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ipython/ipython
Oct 2020 - Oct 2020
Official repository for IPython itself. Other repos in the IPython organization contain things like the website, documentation builds, etc.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Justin primarily focused on refactoring and improving the use of `pathlib` for file and path operations within the IPython project. They updated several files, including `packaging.py`, `io.py`, and `gen_latex_symbols.py`, to leverage the `pathlib` library. Additionally, the user addressed formatting issues and made corrections to the return value of a function in `io.py`. These changes aimed to modernize the codebase and improve code readability.
documentation-websitepythondata-sciencebuildsnotebook
ABORGT/PylertAlertManager
Apr 2018 - Feb 2020
Contributions:3 reviews, 25 commits, 18 PRs in 1 year 10 months
python-librarypythonprometheus-exporterpython3prometheus
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