Bryce Palmer
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Wesley Chapel, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBryce Palmer is a Principal Software Engineer with nine years of experience focused on cloud-native tooling and delightful developer experiences, currently leading engineering at Red Hat. He specializes in Kubernetes ecosystems—contributing to prominent projects like operator-sdk and kubebuilder—where he’s improved CI/CD, scaffolding, and version compatibility to help teams ship reliable operators and APIs. Bryce’s work spans backend systems, DevOps automation, and Windows-specific GUI fixes (notably DPI-aware improvements to the Toga toolkit), reflecting a rare blend of cross-platform attention to detail. A committed open-source practitioner, nearly everything he builds is public on GitHub, and he regularly tackles automation, security fixes, and compatibility matrices behind the scenes. Based in Wesley Chapel, FL, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a focus on developer productivity and maintainability.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Florida Polytechnic University
Github Skills (22)
kubernetes10
github-ci10
docker10
python10
wp-api10
windows10
winapi10
dockers10
cicd10
go10
front-end-development10
kubernetes-pods10
yaml10
kubebuilder10
ws-api10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-sigs/kubebuilder
Apr 2022 - Nov 2022
Kubebuilder - SDK for building Kubernetes APIs using CRDs
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:289 reviews, 23 commits, 16 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Bryce primarily contributed to the project by enhancing the scaffolding process for Kubernetes APIs. They added a README to the go/v3 scaffold templates, implemented flag passing to external plugins, and updated the codebase to work with Kubernetes 1.24 and 1.25. Furthermore, they updated labels and fixed yaml lint failures. These contributions suggest a focus on project setup, automation, and ensuring compatibility with different Kubernetes versions.
kubebuilderkubernetesk8s-sig-api-machinery
operator-framework/operator-sdk
Apr 2022 - Dec 2022
SDK for building Kubernetes applications. Provides high level APIs, useful abstractions, and project scaffolding.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:415 reviews, 40 commits, 251 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Bryce primarily contributed to improving the continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) process for the repository. This is evident through their work on updating and maintaining the link-checker and fixing issues related to build automation, including the creation of images. They also updated the Kubernetes compatibility matrix to include client-go versions. The user also made changes to ansible to resolve CVEs.
kubernetesoperatorsdk
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