Michael Polyak
Staff Software Engineer at Khan Academy
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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RockstarMichael Polyak is a Staff Software Engineer in Toronto with 11+ years building end-to-end software across web, mobile, desktop, embedded and games, currently shaping Khan Academy’s content and translation platforms using React, GraphQL, Go, Python and Google Cloud. He combines systems-level engineering (early career embedded and C/C++ work) with modern UX and interaction design, enabling solutions that are both technically robust and highly usable. As a technical lead he has driven product roadmaps and Agile delivery, and previously architected SaaS and MES systems that directly secured multimillion-dollar contracts. Comfortable moving between low-level firmware and cloud-native services, he brings a practical, deadline-oriented mindset from sales-driven RFPs through production rollout. Colleagues benefit from his breadth: he lenses feature design through both technical constraints and real user experience to reduce friction and accelerate adoption.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (43)
javascript10
converting10
khan-academy10
ace-editor10
latex10
katex10
typesetting10
renderer10
mathquill9
editor9
react-redux9
browser9
mathematics9
ace9
live-coding9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Khan/graphie-to-png
Nov 2017 - Oct 2020
A tool for converting graphie JS code to an image
Contributions:6 reviews, 9 commits, 10 PRs in 2 years 11 months
convertingjavascript
mpolyak/slack-abstract
Jan 2022 - Jan 2022
Contributions:19 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
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