Mark Polyakov
Founding Engineer at Thunder Compute
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMark Polyakov is a founding engineer focused on building lower-cost GPU cloud infrastructure at Thunder Compute, bringing 11 years of software experience across systems, networking, and security. Previously at Aquatic Capital he engineered low-latency market data pipelines, bitemporal databases, and deployment migrations, and he’s built kernel-bypass ingestion and memory-optimized researcher features. He maintains open-source projects including I405-tunnel, an anonymity-focused networking tool that aims to improve on Tor’s privacy guarantees, and developed LOST, an open-source star tracker for small satellites while leading Husky Satellite Lab. His background spans quantum-circuit optimization, embedded systems for zero-g experiments, and programming-language interests, combining research-oriented thinking with pragmatic low-level implementation. Based in San Francisco, he spends spare cycles on side projects, running, and sci-fi, and publishes work at markasoftware.com.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's, BS Computer Science, BS Mathematics, Bachelor's, BS Computer Science, BS Mathematics at University of Washington
Chinese
Stackoverflow
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182answers
59questions
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
markasoftware/gif-is-jif
Oct 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:4 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 1 year 4 months
uploadergfycatcli
UWCubeSat/lost
Oct 2020 - Jan 2023
LOST: Open-source Star Tracker
Contributions:84 reviews, 130 commits, 33 PRs in 2 years 2 months
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