Tomás Pollak
Fundador at Bolder
Valdivia, Los Ríos Region, Chile
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Top SchoolTomás Pollak is a founder and software engineer with 16 years of experience, currently leading Bolder from Valdivia, Chile. He blends back-end and DevOps expertise—demonstrated by contributions to the Prey Bash client where he improved Windows support, SSL handling, installers and performance—to make cross-platform tooling more reliable. Comfortable shipping production systems and automating services, he favors pragmatic engineering over social networks (he prefers contact via Twitter). His work reflects a hands-on approach to interoperability and operational robustness, often tackling less-visible but critical platform details that improve real-world reliability.
16 years of coding experience
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
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Github Skills (10)
bash10
curl10
security9
system-administration9
automations8
automation8
devops8
networking7
scripting6
python4
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
prey/prey-bash-client
Aug 2009 - Aug 2014
Project deprecated, see README
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:866 commits in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Tomás focused on Windows-related improvements to the Prey client, including adding support for 64-bit curl and sed utilities, fixing path issues, and updating the installation process. They also worked on improving the Windows installer and the automated service running the client (CronSVC). Additionally, the user was instrumental in the implementation of SSL for requests and better performance.
cssjavascriptreact
tomas/bowtie
Feb 2010 - Apr 2012
Contributions:114 commits in 2 years 2 months
mongomapperadminmongoadmin-interfacedatamapper
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