Lucas Palmer
Software Engineer at Waymo
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolLucas Palmer is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building production systems at Google and Waymo, now based in Mountain View. A University of Waterloo math and CS graduate, he brings strong applied-math intuition to engineering problems across autonomous systems and large-scale backend services. His background includes full lifecycle Android development, performance troubleshooting, and scalable feature delivery from internships to senior roles, with measurable user-facing impact (e.g., latency fixes and widely used Android features). At Waymo he continues to apply rigorous engineering and research-informed thinking to safety-critical software. Colleagues know him for combining deep technical craft with a practical, data-driven approach to product improvements. Outside work he’s taken unusual detours into elite athletic training, reflecting discipline and a team-oriented mindset.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, and Computational Mathematics, Bachelor of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, and Computational Mathematics at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (14)
remote-server10
alerts9
android-app9
kotlin8
androidplot8
graphview8
android7
security7
java5
privacy5
graph5
charts3
data-visualization2
mpandroidchart1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
lucaspalmer8/lucaspalmer8.github.io
Sep 2015 - Jan 2018
Contributions:214 commits, 242 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
portfoliorebalancing/portfolio-rebalancing-android
Nov 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:33 pushes in 1 month
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