Nick Pollard
Senior Software Engineer at Chicago Trading Company
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Pollard is a senior software engineer in London with 13 years of hands-on experience building large-scale systems spanning operating systems, financial trading platforms, and petabyte-scale telemetry for billions of devices. He blends functional programming expertise and pragmatic system design to solve deep performance and scalability challenges, evidenced by performance-focused contributions to Google’s Perfetto tracing project. A proven technical leader and mentor, he has led Bluetooth development for Fuchsia, steered core product engineering at a bank, and co-led a data-science PaaS as an early hire. Comfortable navigating ambiguity across startups and tech giants, he favors simple, long-lived solutions that balance tactical delivery with strategic direction.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at University of Bristol
Github Skills (9)
surface-flinger10
performance-optimization10
surf10
sql10
protobuffer9
protobuf9
protocol-buffers9
proto9
compiler8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
google/perfetto
Feb 2022 - May 2022
Production-grade client-side tracing, profiling, and analysis for complex software systems.
Role in this project:
Performance Engineer
Performance EngineerContributions:34 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Nick's contributions focused on enhancing the performance instrumentation and tracing capabilities within the Perfetto project. They primarily added and modified SQL tables and views related to Android's SurfaceFlinger process, specifically for tracking janky frames and analyzing GPU completion times. Their work involved extracting and correlating data from trace events to identify performance bottlenecks, particularly related to rendering and frame presentation. The user also made changes to the proto definitions, adding new events and fields related to camera sessions.
profiling
NickPollard/brando
Apr 2015 - Aug 2018
Contributions:20 PRs, 37 pushes, 24 branches in 3 years 4 months
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