Chris Polcyn
Software Development Engineer In Test, CoreOS at Apple
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Polcyn is a software engineering leader and audio-focused technologist with 10 years of experience driving quality and core OS reliability at Apple, most recently as Software QE Manager for Core OS. Trained as a composer and saxophonist with a Master’s in Music Technology from NYU, he blends deep digital signal processing and audio algorithm expertise with test automation and backend engineering. His career spans roles from Audio DSP Engineer to SDET and technical leadership, including contributions to open-source tooling such as fixes and backend improvements in the Salesforce-focused CumulusCI Python framework. Based in Austin, he is known for translating signal-processing intuition into pragmatic, testable systems and for bridging research-grade audio knowledge with production-grade software delivery.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Music, Music Technology, Master of Music, Music Technology at New York UniversityBachelor of Music, Composition, Theory, Bachelor of Music, Composition, Theory at University of North Texas
Github Skills (5)
salesforce-api10
python10
cicd8
continuous-integration8
apex7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
SFDO-Tooling/CumulusCI
Jul 2016 - Jun 2018
Python framework for building portable automation for Salesforce projects
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:69 releases, 44 commits, 228 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the project by addressing bugs and improving existing functionality within the Salesforce-focused Python framework. They fixed a callback URL in a tutorial, updated package versioning logic, and added release notes. The user also worked on merging branches and implemented logic related to Salesforce push operations, indicating involvement in the core backend functionality of the project.
pythonsalesforceautomationportablepython-framework
SFDO-TEST/SFDO-REPO-TEST-1
Sep 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:3 PRs, 1 push, 2 branches in 18 days
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