Yaroslav Polyakov
Engineering Manager II - Agent Lifecycle (Cloud AI) at Google
Seattle, Washington, Poland
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Top SchoolYaroslav Polyakov is an engineering manager with 10+ years of hands-on Java/Kotlin and mobile engineering experience who now leads Agent Lifecycle for Cloud AI at Google. He has repeatedly scaled and revitalized teams—hiring 63+ engineers, growing a department from zero, and boosting a 32-IC org’s performance by 50% in under six months. His background spans AI/ML infrastructure, health, ride-hailing, restaurant tech and military projects, with work on platforms serving 100–180 million users. A former Head of Mobile and recognized top 2% performer at EPAM, he combines deep technical contributions (custom Android widgets and popular open-source repos) with organizational change and cross-timezone delivery. He’s known for improving utilization and retention metrics while owning releases with strict privacy and regulatory requirements. Based in Seattle with roots in Ukraine/Poland, he mentors startups and fosters engineering productivity beyond traditional siloed leadership.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at National University «Kyiv Aviation Institute»
Ukrainian, Russian, Polish, English
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Github Skills (13)
javas10
custom-view10
crop-image10
cropper10
image-cropper10
android-sdk10
croppie10
android10
android-development10
java10
ui-components10
android-library9
xml9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
polyak01/IconSwitch
Mar 2017 - Jul 2017
🍭 Custom Android Switch widget
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:17 commits, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Yaroslav primarily contributed to the development of an Android switch widget. Their initial work involved the fundamental drawing of the switch's components. Subsequent commits focused on implementing drag-and-fling functionality, including handling velocity and settling behavior. Later commits added features such as XML attribute handling for customization, programmatically configurable properties, and accessibility enhancements.
widgetbackground-serviceswitchandroid
steelkiwi/cropiwa
Feb 2017 - Aug 2017
📐 Configurable Custom Crop widget for Android
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:50 commits, 6 PRs, 16 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Yaroslav primarily focused on building the foundational structure and core UI elements for a custom crop widget in the Android application. Their initial commits set up the basic library structure, including essential views like `CropIwaView`, `CropIwaImageView`, and `CropIwaOverlayView`. Further contributions included adding corner point initialization, default colors, drawing logic, and implementation of scale and translation gestures to enhance the crop area manipulation functionality.
crop-imagewidgetimageconfigurablecrop
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