Ned Palacios
Chief Technology Officer at Open Source
Davao City, Philippines
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Top SchoolNed Palacios is a software engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building backend systems, open-source tooling, and community-driven tech initiatives from Davao City, Philippines. He currently balances engineering roles at Betterteam and norg.ai with CTO responsibilities at Dotside Studios, demonstrating both product-level technical leadership and day-to-day delivery. A prolific open-source contributor, Ned has 110+ PRs to the popular V language—fixing Windows OS module behavior, compiler/parser issues, and tooling like VLS—showing deep systems-level competence across Go, Python, and JavaScript. He also co-founded and scaled DICE to unify 500+ student developers and leads the local PWA Pilipinas chapter, blending developer advocacy with practical mentorship. Comfortable across backend stacks (FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Celery/TaskIQ) and frontend integrations, he favors pragmatic, maintainable solutions that ship quickly. Colleagues know him as a curious tinkerer who finds subtle fixes in compilers and developer tools that improve everyday developer experience.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
SHS - Information and Communications Technology Computer Programming, SHS - Information and Communications Technology Computer Programming at Mapúa Malayan Colleges MindanaoBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of the Immaculate Conception
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Github Skills (18)
vlang10
parser10
windows10
implement10
lang10
compiler-design10
go10
parsing10
parse10
language-features10
language-extensions10
operating-system10
json9
decoding9
encoding9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
vlang/v
Jul 2019 - Jul 2022
Simple, fast, safe, compiled language for developing maintainable software. Compiles itself in <1s with zero library dependencies. Supports automatic C => V translation. https://vlang.io
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:54 reviews, 99 commits, 137 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Ned primarily focused on enhancing the V language's core functionality, specifically addressing issues and improving the `os` module on Windows, including fixing `rm` and `rmdir` implementations and setting environment variables. They also made several improvements to compiler functionality, such as enabling term color rendering by default on Windows, adding a "modules/" folder for searching local modules and adding the `!in` token for the scanner. The user also implemented various parser fixes, including correcting the handling of struct attributes, and JSON encode function names, while also incorporating improvements to the VLS, such as adding a custom scanner for JSON decoding.
compiled-languageprogramming-languagecompiler
nedpals/bliss
Jan 2020 - Apr 2020
Contributions:65 commits, 12 pushes in 2 months
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