Mike Palmiotto
Software Engineer at HashiCorp
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Palmiotto is a seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience building robust back-end systems, currently contributing to HashiCorp from New York. He specializes in distributed systems and consensus protocols, with notable open-source work on HashiCorp Vault and the Go Raft implementation—improving storage/raft stability, snapshot log handling, and plugin lifecycle behavior. Prior roles at Crunchy Data and Tresys reflect deep production experience in systems engineering and security-conscious development. Comfortable navigating complex debugging and API evolution, he brings a pragmatic approach to reliability improvements that often surface as small but critical fixes in high-impact projects.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Maryland - A. James Clark School of Engineering
Github Skills (17)
testing10
secret-management10
plugin10
secrets-manager10
go10
vault10
logging10
raft10
raft-protocol10
snapshots9
apidoc9
interface-design9
distributed-systems9
snap9
snap-shot9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/vault
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
A tool for secrets management, encryption as a service, and privileged access management
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:804 reviews, 137 commits, 411 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Vault project, focusing on improving the core features of the secrets management tool. Their work involved addressing a copy-paste error in an agent test and resolving an issue related to raft cluster rejoining, ensuring stability. They also made a crucial contribution to the storage/raft implementation, making `raftInfo` atomic and adding updates in the form of various fixes. Furthermore, the user worked on enhancing the plugin system by introducing deprecation status and making modifications to internal API endpoints and commands.
access-managementencryptionvaultgosecrets
hashicorp/raft
Mar 2023 - Dec 2024
Golang implementation of the Raft consensus protocol
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 3 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily focused on enhancing the Raft consensus protocol implementation in Go. They introduced and implemented the `MonotonicLogStore` interface and made associated changes to `LogCache` and other related files, aimed at efficiently handling log store operations after snapshot restores. The user also added functionality to reset old logs after snapshot restore to improve performance, and modified the testing suite for this purpose. These modifications also included adding a mock log store implementation.
consensusgolangraft
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