Blake Polidore
Senior Software Engineer at Instacart
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolBlake Polidore is a Senior Software Engineer in Austin with a decade of experience building mobile-first applications and data-driven features, currently contributing at Instacart after senior roles at Autodesk. Trained as a civil and geoengineering engineer at UC Berkeley (MS, 3.8), he transitioned from construction project management into Android development, bringing a systems-thinking approach to reliability, schedule and budget-conscious delivery. He specializes in Android and Kotlin ecosystems (Java, RxJava, Dagger, Retrofit, Espresso) and mobile tooling (Android Studio, Google Play Services), shipping consumer apps visible on the Play Store. Blake’s background in project management and engineering gives him a pragmatic edge in cross-functional collaboration and maintaining product quality under constraints. He is comfortable working across APIs, SQL/JSON data flows, and Git-based workflows, and has steadily progressed into senior engineering roles at both startup and enterprise teams. Colleagues describe him as a problem solver who blends field-hardened organizational discipline with hands-on mobile engineering.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Civil and Environmental Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of California, Berkeley
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Github Skills (12)
san8
gradle-kotlin-dsl7
gradle-plugin6
gradle5
assembly5
graph5
kotlin4
android-development4
java4
groovy4
android3
debugging1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
adi-sf-1-targaryen/nyt
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:82 commits, 37 PRs, 33 pushes in 7 days
timesandroidkotlinandroid-developmentgeneral-assembly
blakepolidore/Project-4
Apr 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:4 PRs, 43 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
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