Polly Powledge
Principal at Independent Software Developer
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPolly Powledge is a principal software and firmware engineer with over a decade of experience building cross-platform systems from embedded microcontrollers to Windows and Linux applications. She has led sensor, vision, and input subsystems at Intel and architected manufacturing test suites at Microsoft, combining deep C/C++ and embedded expertise with higher-level languages and tooling. Polly’s work spans GPU programming, computer vision, RF and Bluetooth stacks, and performance optimization—her object-recognition optimizations achieved 15x speedups and powered CES demos. As an independent developer she maintains user-facing Chrome extensions with a 1,000-member community and contributes QA automation to high-profile open-source projects like Privacy Badger. She blends hands-on implementation, project leadership, and cross-cultural factory support, and has a track record of turning lab prototypes into productized technologies and published research.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Computer Science Thomas Hunter Honors Program, B.A. Computer Science Thomas Hunter Honors Program at Hunter College - CUNYM.S. Computer Science, M.S. Computer Science at Columbia Engineering
Github Skills (12)
testing10
selenium-ide10
webdriver10
selenium10
python10
cookie9
javascript9
google-chrome-extension8
chrome-extension8
fingerprinting6
fingerprint6
cicd6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
EFForg/privacybadger
Dec 2015 - Feb 2016
Privacy Badger is a browser extension that automatically learns to block invisible trackers.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:14 commits, 3 PRs, 7 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Polly's commits primarily focused on adding and modifying Selenium-based tests for the Privacy Badger browser extension. They introduced a new cookie test, added utility functions for window management within the tests, and implemented a function to set the tab to a specific URL, crucial for the test harness. These changes included modifying existing test files and setting up the testing environment for Travis CI. The user also made improvements to the test environment by updating the chromedriver version and installing the latest stable Google Chrome.
firefoxbrowserprivacyjavascriptwebextension
PollyP/Notes-on-Penetration-Testing-A-Hands-On-Guide-to-Hacking
Mar 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:20 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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