Silas Palmer
Technical Lead at DSC
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolSilas Palmer is a pragmatic technical lead based in Melbourne with over a decade of experience designing and shipping cloud-native B2C platforms and AI-driven automation that measurably boost conversion and reduce support overhead. He blends hands-on engineering—building data pipelines, training models, and implementing CI/CD—with people-focused leadership that coaches teams, simplifies onboarding, and drives fast, confident iteration. Notable wins include migrating multiple legacy sites to microservices/headless architectures, cutting deploy times from 30+ minutes to under a minute with zero rollbacks, and delivering AI features that lifted conversions to ~4% while slashing manual support by a third. He excels at connecting product strategy, stakeholder insight, and technical execution to deliver customer-centered, cost-effective solutions, and prefers pragmatic, elegant systems that make life faster and more delightful.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Griffith University
Github Skills (12)
php8
interpreter7
proportions4
mutagen3
magento2
linux1
filesystem1
macos1
docker-compose1
docker1
development-environment1
docker-image1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
silasp/AdaptiveResize
Apr 2016 - Oct 2022
Contributions:6 pushes in 6 years 6 months
cropidealadaptivemagento2magento-plugin
theroyalhighjinx/theroyalhighjinx.github.io
Oct 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:14 commits in 2 days
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