Robbie Palmer
Engineering Manager at Terminal Industries
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRobbie Palmer is an engineering manager and former ML lead with eight years of experience building production ML systems and full‑stack applications from Belfast. He combines hands-on machine learning—RAG chatbots, semantic and image similarity search, invoice extraction and product detection—with product-minded engineering, shipping APIs, CI/CD and IaC for seed-stage startups and enterprise teams. At Terminal Industries he’s progressed from senior engineer to principal and now leads engineering, applying a pragmatic “build vs buy” approach learned while running ML strategy at Bestomer. His background in digital pathology and computational imaging at Philips and Sonraí gives him a strong foundation in deploying high‑accuracy, regulated ML models. Colleagues know him for balancing technical depth with UX-focused product decisions and for wearing multiple hats to move small teams to market quickly.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at Queen's University BelfastA-Levels, Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry and Biology, A-Levels, Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry and Biology at Dominican College Portstewart
English, Italian
Github Skills (200)
pii10
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python10
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deep-learning10
gpu10
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nvidia-docker10
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fastai10
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Robbie-Palmer/personal-blog
Jul 2020 - Feb 2023
Contributions:1 review, 4 PRs, 110 pushes in 2 years 8 months
confluentinc/csid-ksqldb-udf-python
Jan 2023 - Feb 2023
A Python SDK for creating ksqlDB UDFs
Contributions:5 releases, 1 review, 12 PRs in 1 month
kafkaksqldbksqldb-tutorialspythonreal-time
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