Brandon Pollack
Founder at TokyoRust.org
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolBrandon Pollack is a seasoned software engineer and current president of TokyoRust.org with 11 years of experience building systems at Google, Pulumi, and Microsoft. He brings deep expertise across OS and distributed systems (ChromeOS, Windows, Google Assistant, Hadoop/Spark), infrastructure-as-code tooling (notably contributions to the Pulumi core around SDK generation and dependency/version management), and backend/cloud development. Equally comfortable at the metal and in high-level stacks, he programs in C/C++, Rust, Scala, Java, C#, JavaScript, Python, Bash and Haskell, and pursues clean architecture and extensible graphics work—authoring a Vulkan-based renderer in Rust. Based in Tokyo, he runs a consulting firm focused on Rust, cloud, and AI integration, speaks conversational Japanese, and blends academic rigor (master’s in computer engineering) with practical product and open-source impact.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Engineering, Master’s Degree, Computer Engineering at University of Florida
Japanese, English
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9answers
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Github Skills (30)
python10
command-line-interface10
terraform10
terraformer10
automation10
code-generation10
go10
sdk10
aac10
command-line10
infrastructure-as-code10
nodejs10
automations10
cli10
cloud-computing9
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
pulumi/pulumi
May 2024 - Apr 2025
Pulumi - Infrastructure as Code in any programming language 🚀
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:149 reviews, 78 PRs, 392 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Brandon primarily contributed to the Pulumi core infrastructure as code project, focusing on enhancing the functionality of the `pulumi install`, `pulumi convert`, and `pulumi package add` commands. They implemented features related to versioning, SDK generation, and dependency management, specifically for Go, Python, Node.js, and .NET projects. Their work involved modifying the code generation process, adding new functionality like the `can` function in PCL, and fixing build and dependency issues.
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brandonpollack23/before_you_die
Sep 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:178 pushes, 14 branches, 1 comment in 20 days
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