Jake Polacek
Software Engineer at Notion
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Polacek is a software engineer based in San Francisco with a decade of engineering experience and a B.S. in Computer Science from Cornell. He currently builds user roles and permissions at Notion after contributing to product security foundations and infrastructure at Slack, where he progressed from intern to Software Engineer II. Jake is interested in the intersection of cybersecurity, privacy, and technology policy, bringing that perspective to product and platform work. His background includes hands-on roles in electronic warfare and Cornell Hyperloop, reflecting a blend of software, hardware, and systems-level thinking. Outside of work he keeps personal projects on GitHub while respecting academic integrity constraints, signaling disciplined ownership of code and research.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Regents Diploma with Honors in Math and Science, Advanced Regents Diploma with Honors in Math and Science at Westhill High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Cornell University
Github Skills (10)
htmlpurifier9
php7
hacklang7
api4
json-data4
cpp3
json-api3
json3
cups2
flask1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
JPolacek/RecipeGenerator
Jun 2018 - Jun 2020
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push, 2 branches in 1 year 11 months
slackhq/htmlsanitizer-hack
Aug 2020 - Jan 2022
A port of the PHP HTML Purifier originally developed by Edward Z. Yang into Hacklang
Contributions:8 releases, 22 reviews, 56 commits in 1 year 5 months
hacklanghtmlpurifierphp
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