Elaina Polson
Senior Software Engineer & Tech Lead Manager at Uber
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolElaina Polson is a Senior Software Engineer and Tech Lead Manager with 11 years of full-stack experience, currently leading teams at Uber in New York. She brings deep domain expertise in commercial real estate technology from multi-year roles at VTS and Occupier, and backend experience on high-throughput consumer products like Uber Eats. Comfortable shipping across frontend and backend stacks, she has repeatedly translated real estate and financial product requirements into reliable, production-grade systems. Her background in political science gives her a knack for stakeholder communication and framing technical trade-offs in business terms. Known for mentoring engineers while owning delivery, she balances hands-on coding with cross-functional leadership. Pragmatic and product-minded, she excels at turning complex domain problems into practical engineering outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of Georgia
Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (8)
perfect-scrollbar10
directive9
scrollbar7
smooth-scrolling5
flatiron4
react4
angular4
perfect4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ryannyunn/localeats-3000
Jul 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:32 PRs, 42 pushes, 7 branches in 4 days
flatiron-schoolflatiron-school-projectflatironschool-project
elainapolson/tempo-app
Aug 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:4 PRs, 25 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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