Tommy Palmer
Software Engineer at Verna
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTommy Palmer is a Senior Full Stack Engineer based in London with 14 years of experience building products across startups and large organisations. Comfortable across backend, frontend and design, he pairs a design-led perspective with hands-on delivery—most recently architecting a live-streaming platform using Elixir, Phoenix, WebRTC/HLS and React. He’s shipped features at scale at Deliveroo, helped evolve GOV.UK’s Whitehall publishing platform integrating with external publishing APIs, and has repeatedly stepped into unfamiliar codebases to move projects forward. As a founding engineer at a streaming startup and a senior hire at multiple companies, he combines product-facing stakeholder experience with deep technical execution. Tom’s background in interactive multimedia gives him a practical edge in UX-sensitive systems and real-time web engineering.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Interactive Multimedia Design, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Interactive Multimedia Design at Ulster UniversityBTEC BTEC ND in Software Development, BTEC BTEC ND in Software Development at Belfast Met
Github Skills (9)
database-migrations10
rails10
database-migration10
ruby-on-rails10
ruby10
postgresql9
api9
apim9
rspec7
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
alphagov/whitehall
Feb 2014 - Jul 2015
Publishes government content on GOV.UK
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:86 commits, 39 PRs, 123 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Tommy primarily focused on enhancing the Whitehall publishing platform. Their contributions involved adding features related to specialist sectors, including modifications to models and views to incorporate these enhancements across different content types like policies, consultations, and detailed guides. They also implemented data migrations to transition data, like moving Mainstream Categories to Specialist Sectors. Furthermore, they worked on integrating with external services like Panopticon and the Publishing API, improving the registration and publishing of content.
govgovuk-publishing-frontendgovukgovernmentcontainer
tommyp/lineup-fun
Aug 2022 - Jan 2025
Contributions:13 PRs, 60 pushes, 14 branches in 2 years 5 months
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