Polina Govorkova
Software Developer at Google
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolPolina Govorkova is a Software Developer with nine years of experience building mobile and backend systems, currently contributing to Crashlytics at Google. She has deep hands-on expertise in Flutter and Firebase ML—authoring enhancements to the popular flutterfire repo to improve cloud and document text recognition and adding support for custom ML models. Her background spans full-stack product work, microservices on AWS, and test-driven development from roles at BlueCat and internships that delivered significant operational cost reductions. Polina combines academic rigor from a Computer Engineering degree at the University of Toronto with practical research exposure and a habit of exploring new technologies, reflected in her “interested in everything new” GitHub bio. Notably, she bridges native Android/iOS APIs and Dart in cross-platform contexts, making her especially effective on mobile ML integration projects.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Science Honors Program (SHP), Science Honors Program (SHP) at Columbia University in the City of New YorkHonours Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Engineering, CGPA: 3.29, 4th year annual GPA 3.82., Honours Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Engineering, CGPA: 3.29, 4th year annual GPA 3.82. at University of TorontoInternational Baccalaureate bilingual diploma, 95%, IB score of 36, International Baccalaureate bilingual diploma, 95%, IB score of 36 at EF Academy New YorkSecondary General Education, 4.6/5, Secondary General Education, 4.6/5 at State Budgetary Educational Institution of Moscow Secondary general school Nr. 2086Basic General Education, 4.5/5, Basic General Education, 4.5/5 at State Budgetary Educational Institution of Moscow Secondary General School Nr. 25
English, Russian
Github Skills (8)
computer-vision10
flutter-game10
dart10
mobile-development10
firebase10
flutter-apps10
flutter10
test-automation8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
firebase/flutterfire
Jul 2020 - Aug 2020
🔥 A collection of Firebase plugins for Flutter apps.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)Contributions:6 commits, 27 PRs, 10 pushes in 19 days
Contributions summary:Polina primarily contributed to the firebase_ml_vision plugin, focusing on enhancing text recognition capabilities within the Flutter framework. The user's work involved implementing options for the cloud document text recognizer and cloud text recognizer, specifically focusing on language hints and cloud text model types. They also added support for using custom ML models, creating a new plugin for it, and implemented text recognition in documents through DocumentTextRecognizer. The user's modifications included updates to example code, and adjustments to code formatting and testing files.
flutter-appsgooglefirebasedartflutter
PolinaGo/flutterfire
Jun 2020 - Aug 2020
🔥 Firebase plugins for Flutter apps
Contributions:210 pushes, 26 branches in 1 month
flutterfirebasedartflutter-apps
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