Javier Pollak
Software Engineer at N1
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolJavier Pollak is a software engineer based in Montreal with a decade of experience building backend systems and full-stack applications across health tech, adtech, and startup ventures. He combines a strong formal background in mathematics and computer science from McGill with hands-on work in Flask/React Native, Elixir/Phoenix, and backend services. Javier co-founded a startup and has shipped production features at companies like Optable and HeroAI, often tackling data analysis, alerting, and resilient backend logic. As an active open-source contributor, he improved core stability and rendering behavior in the Wayfire Wayland compositor, demonstrating comfort working on low-level, performance-sensitive code. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who balances product urgency with clean, maintainable implementations. He’s equally at home debugging subtle rendering glitches as architecting server-side pipelines, bringing both curiosity and execution focus to projects.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Dawson CollegeB.A. Mathematics and Computer Science Joint Honours, B.A. Mathematics and Computer Science Joint Honours at McGill University
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Github Skills (9)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
wayland9
debug9
window-manager9
debugging9
composite8
co8
opengl8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
WayfireWM/wayfire
May 2021 - Nov 2021
A modular and extensible wayland compositor
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 32 commits, 18 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Javier primarily contributed to the Wayfire compositor's core functionality, focusing on improving its internal workings. They addressed rendering glitches in sublayers, fixed an out-of-bounds error in the default configuration backend, and added an interpolation method option for zoom functionality. Furthermore, the user implemented changes to the decoration and view management, enhancing the compositor's internal structure. These contributions improved the stability and functionality of the Wayfire compositor.
waylandcompositormodularextensiblewayland-compositor
Javyre/systhemer
Jun 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:18 PRs, 102 pushes, 4 branches in 7 months
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