Benjamin Pollak
Senior Software Engineer at Regard
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Pollak is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building backend-focused full-stack systems across finance, media, and security sectors. He regularly ships production services using Python, Golang, React, and AWS, and pairs that with strong observability and CI/CD chops (NewRelic, Datadog, Splunk, Jenkins) to keep SLAs humming. At Capital One he led the migration and decommissioning of a legacy multi-tenant ML platform by engineering robust data transfer tooling and providing white-glove onboarding for mission-critical models. More recently he helped drive retention and revenue features at The New York Times, implementing resilient APIs and real-time monitoring for global users. Curious and detail-oriented, he combines pragmatic automation (batch messaging reductions, faster releases) with thoughtful documentation and cross-functional collaboration. Outside work he’s a NeoVim-using prog-rock fan who lightens long sprints with perfectly timed dad jokes.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science and Chemistry, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science and Chemistry at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (25)
latex9
gnu8
textbook8
system-programming8
linux7
mason7
react-router7
react6
posix6
coder6
webpack6
serve5
python5
neovim4
nvim-lspconfig4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
BenjaminPollak/dot_files
Dec 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:75 pushes in 1 year 2 months
BenjaminPollak/recipes
Jun 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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