Matt Palmer
Director Of Application Security
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Palmer is a pragmatic application security leader with 11+ years focusing on designing security into systems and leading teams to deliver business-aligned, auditable solutions. Currently Director of Application Security at CLS Group, he moved up through senior architecture and consultancy roles where he shaped security for financial services, critical national infrastructure, and privacy-forward startups. He combines hands-on protocol and architecture experience—building end-to-end cryptographic and client-side key management designs at Qredo—with programme-level delivery of PCI and enterprise security at Sainsbury’s and Maersk. A Royal Holloway MSc in Information Security and practical cryptography training underpin a career that spans consultancy, in-house security leadership, and product-oriented R&D. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic architect who balances technical rigor with clear business value and governance.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Information Security, MSc, Information Security at Royal Holloway, University of LondonCryptography, Cryptography at Coursera
Github Skills (43)
crossword10
tuple10
permutation10
trie10
string-matching10
ide10
matching10
pattern-matching10
levenshtein-distance10
bengali10
pattern10
java10
searching10
edit-distance10
netbeans10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nishihatapalmer/TreeTable
Jul 2021 - Mar 2025
A Java Swing tree table using a standard JTable and any type of TreeNode or TreeModel.
Contributions:3 PRs, 102 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 9 months
javaswingswing-componenttreetabletreeview
ostafen/smart
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
String Matching Algorithms Research Tool
Contributions:44 commits, 60 PRs, 6 pushes in 2 months
string-matchingpythonstringmatchingresearch-tool
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