Kenny Polyak
Software Engineer at Amazon
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKenny Polyak is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience blending software engineering, data science, and systems architecture to ship production ML and inference systems. After building supplier-facing pricing and model-deployment infrastructure at Wayfair, he moved into machine learning roles at Amazon and was promoted to Senior Software Engineer, where he continues to bridge research and production. He pairs technical rigor with an applied-science mindset and a creator’s eye from founding a successful digital production company, giving him uncommon strengths in storytelling, product design, and cross-disciplinary collaboration. Fluent in French and Russian and trained in philosophy, he brings clear communication and analytical depth to complex engineering problems.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Philosophy, B.A. Modern Languages, B.A. Philosophy, B.A. Modern Languages at Kenyon CollegeBilingual International Baccalaureate Diploma (fluent in French and Russian), Bilingual International Baccalaureate Diploma (fluent in French and Russian) at French American International School (San Francisco, CA)
Russian, French, English
Github Skills (14)
building-blocks9
docker-compose7
docker6
campus5
survey5
nyc5
dgraph3
react2
nodejs2
reactor2
visualization2
recursion1
graphql1
data-visualization1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kapolyak/docker101-demo
Feb 2019 - May 2020
A simple repo to help demonstrate the building-blocks of Docker.
Contributions:17 commits, 8 pushes in 1 year 3 months
docker-composebuilding-blocksdocker
CozySheetz/Booker
Oct 2018 - May 2019
A reservation booking microservice built for an AirBnb clone using React, Styled Components, and a simple Node/Express backend
Contributions:8 PRs, 58 pushes, 6 branches in 7 months
reactnode-expressexpressjsairbnbexpress
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