Robbie Palmer
Principal Software Engineer & Engineering Manager
Building real-time computer vision products and ML pipelines, while driving engineering practices for a startup transitioning from pre-product to production.
Core: Python · DVC · AWS · Docker · FastAPI · GitHub Actions · Google Gemini · Leaflet · OpenRouter · TypeScript
Experience
Building real-time computer vision products and ML pipelines, while driving engineering practices for a startup transitioning from pre-product to production.
- Built real-time computer vision products for multi-stream video and image analysis, for identifier identification in complex environments
- Engineered ML pipelines with data version control, benchmarking infrastructure, and end-to-end observability powered by Grafana Cloud (Prometheus, Loki, Tempo)
- Developed web services, Terraform managed infrastructure, and LLM-powered document analysis solutions
Python · Terraform · Grafana · Prometheus · DVC · Google Gemini · TypeScript
Led ML strategy at a seed-stage startup, building pipelines, evaluating build-vs-buy decisions, and developing full-stack prototypes.
- Led ML strategy and built end-to-end ML pipelines for training, evaluation, and deployment
- Optimized, evaluated, and integrated ML models powering semantic search, image similarity search, invoice extraction, product detection, and RAG-based chatbots
TypeScript · Node.js · Fastify · Prisma · Postgresql · Weaviate · Python
Designed and built ML-driven data streaming solutions, wearing multiple hats across engineering, product, and customer-facing roles.
- Designed and engineered machine-learning-driven data-streaming solutions
- Acted as software engineer, product owner, project manager and technical consultant
Technical lead for Data Science at an early-stage health-tech startup, shaping engineering practices and building computer vision pipelines for pathology.
- Acted as technical lead for the Data Science team, making foundational architectural decisions and mentoring junior engineers
- Developed computer vision models for semantic segmentation, multiple instance learning and object localisation
Led development of production-grade computer vision for computational pathology, from algorithm design through to scalable deployment.
- Led development of production-grade computer vision solutions for computational pathology
- Drove algorithm conception, data collection and engineering, and deep learning model development