Marco Palma

Marco Palma has a diverse work experience spanning over two decades. Marco has worked in various roles and industries, including software engineering, fintech, VoIP, integrations, and web development.

Most recently, Marco worked as a Software Engineer at Wildfire Systems, Inc., where they focused on maintaining and adding to the code base of the backend platform team. Marco utilized Golang, RDBMs, event queues, and a distributed, micro-service architecture.

Previously, Marco held the position of Software Engineer-II at Tala, a fintech company. Here, they contributed to the development of the Loans backend codebase, using technologies such as Golang, Kotlin, Groovy, Jenkins, AWS, Kafka, RDBMS, and microservice architecture.

Before that, Marco worked as a Senior Software Engineer at DYL, where they played a key role in building VoIP-related Golang micro-services. Marco utilized technologies such as Elasticsearch, Cassandra, RabbitMQ, Postgres, Swagger, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, and Freeswitch.

At GrayMeta Inc., Marco worked as a Software Developer, focusing on developing integrations with remote third-party systems and implementing Elasticsearch and Postgres for data analysis. Marco also worked on front-end JS Vue code.

At OpenX, Marco held the position of Software Engineer III, where they contributed to building tools for managing bare metal systems, hypervisors, and virtual nodes across multiple datacenters. Marco utilized Modern Perl, including Moose, Catalyst, and DBIx.

During their tenure at Oversee.net, Marco worked as a Perl Software Engineer. Marco was responsible for the backend of a profitable travel lead generation website, using Perl's Catalyst framework and a home-grown object system.

At MyShape, Marco served as a Senior Software Developer, working on the Shapematch algorithm team and improving the business logic for physical dimension matching and clothing recommendations. Marco also revamped the measurement input application using Flash's ActionScript.

Prior to that, at Tumis, Marco worked as a Senior Engineer, where they developed a web application framework for social networking and content publishing. Marco utilized PHP, MySQL, and custom file-based caching.

At Citysearch, Marco started as a front-end developer and eventually moved on to backend development. Marco contributed to the website's functionality using HTML, JavaScript, and databases such as MySQL and Oracle.

Early in their career, Marco worked at eToys.com as a Web Technologist, managing a team responsible for search and checkout cart functionality. Marco also hand-coded static pages using HTML.

Throughout their career, Marco has gained experience with various technologies, including Golang, RDBMs, micro-service architecture, AWS, Docker, Elasticsearch, Postgres, Perl, JavaScript, and Flash's ActionScript.

Marco Palma attended the University of California, Berkeley from 1992 to 1996, during which they earned a Bachelor's degree in Development Studies. Marco also pursued a minor in Spanish.