Palmer Paul
Software Engineer at Meta
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPalmer Paul is a software engineer with 12 years of experience, currently working on configuration tooling and change safety at Meta in New York. A UPenn BSE/MSE graduate and former Haskell instructor, he blends strong functional-programming expertise (OCaml, Elm, Haskell) with production JavaScript and Python work. He has contributed to Facebook’s Flow static-typing project—adding lint rules and refactoring analysis—and built features like Google Drive export for Sefaria that involved both backend and client-side integrations. His open-source work includes an Elm-to-iOS bridge that attracted significant interest and a history of shipping robust tooling and analysis features. Palmer’s background teaching and developing curricula informs his thoughtful approach to code quality and developer ergonomics. He pairs deep language-theory instincts with pragmatic full-stack execution across large-scale and community projects.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Heschel SchoolMaster of Science in Engineering (MSE) Computer Science, Master of Science in Engineering (MSE) Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
English, Hebrew
Stackoverflow
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164answers
7questions
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Github Skills (22)
javascript10
oauth10
google-drive-api10
jes9
testing9
python9
django9
jea9
j9
linting9
html8
css7
windows-server6
flask6
opencv6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Sefaria/Sefaria-Project
May 2016 - Jul 2016
New Interfaces for Jewish Texts
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:82 commits, 7 PRs, 15 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Palmer contributed to the development of new interfaces for Jewish texts by implementing features related to Google Drive integration. They worked on the back-end, removing temporary code for backend migrations and refactoring gauth-related decorators, and they also worked on the front-end by adding client-side JavaScript and UI elements to support the export of source sheets to Google Drive. Their contributions included updating templates and views to accommodate this functionality.
torahtalmudjewishinterfacestexts
facebook/flow
May 2019 - Aug 2019
Adds static typing to JavaScript to improve developer productivity and code quality.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Palmer primarily contributes to the `facebook/flow` repository, which adds static typing to JavaScript. Their commits demonstrate a focus on improving the type checking capabilities of Flow. The user implemented a new linting rule to enforce the use of explicit exact/inexact object syntax, enhancing code quality. The user also refactored the analysis and fixed tests related to instance property assignments.
static-typingproductivityjavascriptdeveloper-productivitydataflow-programming
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