Ari Pollak
Software Engineering Consultant at Kairon Health
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAri Pollak is a Software Engineering Consultant with 19 years of experience helping startups and enterprises improve performance and security for web and data applications. Based in Washington, D.C., he has delivered measurable improvements across roles at Grubhub, Civis Analytics, LevelUp and others, frequently stepping into high-impact consulting engagements. Ari combines hands-on engineering with an emphasis on secure, high-performing systems, and often focuses on practical optimizations that pay off in latency, cost, and risk reduction. His background spans both product-facing services and analytics platforms, and he brings a pragmatic, metrics-driven approach to technical debt and architecture decisions.
19 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Northeastern University
Github Skills (200)
dataflow10
web-application10
testing10
rspec10
stimulusjs10
metadata10
chat10
automation10
gemfile10
linter10
nvim10
compose10
raspberry-pi-camera10
time-tracking10
html10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
aripollak/kickstart.nvim
Nov 2023 - Mar 2025
My neovim config. Adds some additional configuration and plugins on top of the stock kickstart.nvim. Most of my customizations are in lua/custom/plugins, but some are in main init.lua for things that need to be customized there, like lspconfig.
Contributions:1 PR, 37 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 3 months
aripollak/random
Mar 2007 - Jan 2023
Contributions:181 commits, 129 pushes in 16 years
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