Michael Palmer
Staff Software Engineer at The Home Depot
Vancouver, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Palmer is a Staff Software Engineer with over a decade of experience designing and modernizing enterprise systems, currently driving Purchase Order Management and broader platform initiatives at The Home Depot. He has a strong history of evolving monolithic applications into distributed microservice architectures with robust CI/CD from his tenure at QuoteCenter and Home Depot. Comfortable across the full stack, he specializes in C#, .NET, SQL-backed systems and performance optimization—having tuned EF-heavy workloads and built APIs and data stewardship UIs. Michael pairs hands-on engineering with leadership: mentoring teams, stepping into lead roles when needed, and scaling organizations from small squads to 40+ engineers. Based in Vancouver, Washington, he also brings a unique background in military communications and product prototyping for game development, which informs his pragmatic approach to reliability and rapid iteration.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma General Studies, Diploma General Studies at Central High SchoolBachelor Of Science Computer Science with emphasis in Software Engineering, Bachelor Of Science Computer Science with emphasis in Software Engineering at Western Oregon University
Github Skills (14)
converting10
java9
search-engine9
elasticsearch9
restful8
react8
web-application8
opensearch7
php7
javascript6
developer-tools5
zero-configuration5
build-tools4
create-react-app4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
MichaelPalmer-Orange/PostmanPro_Trial
Aug 2017 - Feb 2019
Contributions:533 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
Draekane/DiscPath-App
Apr 2018 - Dec 2019
Taking the discpath site and converting it into a web application, currently based on a folder of discs data
Contributions:157 commits, 35 PRs, 166 pushes in 1 year 8 months
convertingphpjavascriptweb-application
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