Summary
Gallagher Polyn is a Senior API Developer with 11 years of experience architecting cloud-native platforms and secure data integrations, currently leading the design and build of Forest River's enterprise API platform connecting ~100 plants and a massive dealer network to external partners. He blends hands-on engineering in .NET, Python, and Java with infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and identity-driven API design across AWS, Azure, and GCP, and holds AWS Solutions Architect Professional, CKAD, and Azure Administrator certifications. His background includes senior roles at McKinsey and Accenture and consulting for Citibank and federal clients, giving him a strong mix of delivery, governance, and executive-facing communication. Notably, he pairs platform strategy and runbook authorship with implementing hybrid cloud landing zones and selecting managed SaaS API gateways, showing comfort from board-level strategy down to pipeline automation.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Post Baccalaureate, Statistics, Post Baccalaureate, Statistics at University of Washington
BA, Government, BA, Government at Cornell University