Michael Palmer

January 2014 - August 2014

I developed and implemented multiple business applications in production, learned about IT project management using the waterfall development model, and revised existing solutions to reduce liability and increase efficiency.

May 2015 - December 2015

I played a key role in the development and implementation of a scalable pilot project which consolidates production data from multiple systems, performs calculations, and displays the critical information on web reporting dashboards. To do this efficiently, we utilized the agile development model and communicated with business users in Germany on a daily basis. As a result of this project, business awareness of the status of their processes was increased and the risk of production downtime was reduced.

May 2016 - August 2016

During my time as an IT Intern at Home Depot, I helped to create a web-based tool that enables store managers to quickly understand how accounts in their profit and loss statements are performing and provide a means to take corrective action. In addition, I collaborated with a small team to develop the frontend and backend of an investor relations interface using Angular, Spring Boot, and MySQL. My primary role in the project was to integrate a REST service to perform single sign on authentication. I also learned about the company's cloud infrastructure, deploying new and existing Java applications, and utilized pair programming to both teach and learn from co-workers.

Junior Solutions Developer

From January 2016 - August 2016, while a full-time student at Georgia Southern University, I worked part-time to build mobile and web applications using Django and Ionic, handle support issues and interact with customers via an agile ticket system, and collaborate with team members using Git. During the summer months, I explored production use cases for Docker in our application infrastructure.

Junior Solutions Developer - Team Lead

From August 2016 - October 2016, I served as the Team Lead of the part-time employees. My Team Lead responsibilities included overseeing the training of part-time developers and serving as a liaison between junior and senior developers.

Senior Solutions Developer

In October 2016, I moved up to a full-time role. I perform full stack development of browser-based SaaS applications using Django, Python, HTML, and SCSS, as well as handle support issues and interact with customers via an agile ticket system. To accelerate our development and deployment, we utilize AWS, Docker, continuous integration (GitLab CI), and continuous deployment (Ansible + Jenkins). I also install, monitor, and execute monthly updates to our development infrastructure.

Enterprise Application Engineer

Starting in March 2018, I moved back to Atlanta to dive further into Amazon Web Services.

Senior Software Engineer

Starting in May 2019, I moved up to a software engineering position on GE's cloud team where I will be responsible for building fully compliant cloud accounts for the various businesses within GE, as well as designing tools and automation to ensure these accounts remain compliant to company policies.

Staff Software Engineer

In July 2021, I was promoted within GE's central Cloud Hosting Team.