David Pollak
Founder
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Summary
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RockstarDavid Pollak is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 18 years of experience building backend systems and frameworks from Providence, Rhode Island. As the creator and principal maintainer behind the Lift Framework, he combines hands-on back-end development with ongoing open-source stewardship, shipping features, database/form integrations, and bug fixes. He is a polyglot enthusiast—comfortable in Clojure, Scala, and Rust—and brings a pragmatic, code-first approach to architecture and product problems. Known for digging into frameworks rather than just applications, he balances entrepreneurial leadership with deep technical ownership of core platform code.
18 years of coding experience
Github Skills (7)
javas10
back-end-development10
java10
programming-language9
functional-programming7
html6
software-design4
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
lift/framework
Jan 2010 - Apr 2015
Lift Framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:759 commits, 6 PRs, 6 pushes in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the Lift Framework, focusing on back-end development tasks. The user implemented new features related to the creation of area tags, and created new methods for a variety of things related to the underlying database and form. In addition, the user was responsible for general maintenance and fixing bugs related to the codebase. These changes demonstrate a focus on adding new functionality and addressing issues within the Lift Framework.
frameworkscalaliftjavareal-time
dpp/visi-core
Dec 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:44 commits, 1 push, 3 tags in 4 months
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