Michael Pollard
Senior Product Engineer GTM at inference.net
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Pollard is a San Francisco–based senior product engineer with nine years of full‑stack experience, currently leading GTM engineering at inference.net while running his own consultancy. He builds end-to-end web and mobile products using TypeScript, React/Next.js, tRPC, GraphQL, Node, and both SQL and NoSQL databases, and has a strong practical grounding in security from contributing unit tests and fixes to the widely used wolfSSL TLS library. A former founding engineer and head of engineering, he blends startup grit and technical leadership with hands-on delivery for clients and teams. He’s passionate about entrepreneurship, open source, and digital nomadism, and often steps into technical co‑founder roles when the product and fit are right.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Montana State University-BozemanComputer Science, Computer Science at University of Exeter
Github Skills (14)
webcrypto-api10
unit-testing10
security10
mtls10
c-library10
ssl10
tls1210
cryptoapi10
tls1310
cryptography10
libtls10
encryption9
sys9
embedded9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
wolfSSL/wolfssl
May 2018 - Oct 2018
The wolfSSL library is a small, fast, portable implementation of TLS/SSL for embedded devices to the cloud. wolfSSL supports up to TLS 1.3 and DTLS 1.3!
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:22 commits, 5 PRs, 3 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to unit testing and code maintenance within the wolfSSL library. Their commits include adding and updating unit tests for cryptographic functions like Poly1305, and making minor fixes to ensure correct functionality and maintainability of the code, including null checks and fixes to the Asio C++ library. They also implemented a merging of the branch "master" into the "wolfASIO" branch. The user seems to be focused on the security and the reliable functionality of the SSL library, as evidenced by their focus on testing cryptographic functions and the associated low-level code changes.
trusted-execution-environmentdata-storageopenssl-apiwolfsslfhe
MJSPollard/wolfssl
May 2018 - Apr 2019
wolfSSL (formerly CyaSSL) is a small, fast, portable implementation of TLS/SSL for embedded devices to the cloud. http://www.wolfssl.com
Contributions:119 pushes, 42 branches in 10 months
sslc99libeventtlsembedded-devices
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