Sydney Polk
Senior Software Engineer at Indeed
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolSydney Polk is a Senior Software Engineer based in Austin with 11+ years of experience building resilient, user-focused mobile and backend systems at scale, currently shaping Indeed’s iOS/ReactNative stack and Federated GraphQL services. She blends deep hands-on expertise across Swift/SwiftUI, GraphQL, Kafka, and DevOps tooling with a background in QA, release engineering and SRE to reduce outages, improve metrics, and ship measurable user gains (e.g., 30% fewer push opt-outs and a 9% messaging engagement uplift). Comfortable leading distributed and offshore teams, she established an on-call and Datadog-driven monitoring practice that cut outage-notification time from over two hours to under five minutes. Her career spans platform work at Apple, Mozilla and Red Hat, giving her unusual breadth from compiler/build systems to high-volume production services. Outside engineering she’s a jazz-trained musician and baseball analyst, signaling an analytical and creative mindset that informs both product decisions and cross-team collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Lanier Junior HighBA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at Rice UniversityDiploma, Instrumental Music, Diploma, Instrumental Music at HSPVAMusic (Jazz), Music (Jazz) at University of Miami
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Github Skills (36)
sphinx10
mkdocs9
sphinx-doc9
markdown9
thunderbird9
python9
jenkins8
mozilla8
api8
firefox-addon8
marionette7
jenkins-api-plugin7
firefox7
swiftui6
jenkins-plugin6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sydvicious/BoneJarring
May 2015 - Jun 2023
Contributions:70 pushes, 4 branches in 8 years 1 month
sydvicious/adventurers-and-protagonists
Jul 2023 - Mar 2025
An app designed to managed characters and other creatures in role-playing games
Contributions:6 PRs, 40 pushes, 11 branches in 1 year 8 months
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