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 (34)
pattern-matching10
java10
searching-algorithms10
regular-expression10
treeview10
tree-model9
string-matching9
ide9
jtable9
netbeans9
tree-node9
swing9
swing-component9
code-editor9
netbeans-platform8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nishihatapalmer/droid
Aug 2017 - Apr 2025
DROID (Digital Record and Object Identification)
Contributions:141 pushes, 25 branches in 7 years 9 months
droidrecordidentification
nishihatapalmer/TreeTable
Jul 2021 - Jan 2026
A Java Swing tree table using a standard JTable and any type of TreeNode or TreeModel.
Contributions:3 PRs, 103 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 6 months
javajtableswingtree-modeltree-node
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