Thomas Polasek
Senior Software Engineer (Instagram) at Meta
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Polasek is a senior software engineer with 16 years of experience building high-throughput, cloud-native systems and developer-facing tooling, currently working on Instagram at Meta. He has led design and delivery of mission-critical middleware that handles thousands of updates per second, championed language and platform migrations (Java to Kotlin), and implemented CI and Terraform-driven AWS deployments. Thomas blends hands-on backend engineering (ETL pipelines, streaming, DynamoDB, SQS) with devops expertise in Kubernetes/EKS, Docker, and observability, and has a track record of improving team productivity through tooling and Datadog SLO dashboards. Based in Edmonton and educated in computer engineering at the University of Alberta, he’s known for coaching junior engineers and for pragmatic optimizations that squeeze maximum throughput from limited resources.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Bachelor of Engineering - BE at University of AlbertaBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering at Faculty of Engineering, University of Alberta
Czech
Github Skills (2)
speeduino7
arduino6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
thomas41546/minecraft
Sep 2010 - Sep 2010
Contributions:1 commit in 1 day
thomas41546/XeviousClone
Jul 2010 - Jul 2010
Contributions:2 commits in 1 day
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