Zack Pollard
Senior Software Engineer at FUTO
Flitwick, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolZack Pollard is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years’ experience building reliable, production-grade systems across consumer and enterprise domains from startups to large brands. He has progressed through engineering roles at Moonpig and KFC UK & Ireland and now leads development efforts at FUTO, blending hands-on coding with product-focused delivery. A contributor to the high-performance self-hosted media project Immich, Zack has practical mobile Flutter experience solving tough issues like large-asset OOMs and resilient backup workflows. Based in Flitwick, UK, he pairs a BSc in Computer Science from Loughborough with a history of freelance and co-founder roles that reveal both entrepreneurial drive and customer-focused engineering. Colleagues know him for pragmatic problem-solving and improving robustness in distributed, media-heavy applications.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at Loughborough UniversityHarlington Upper School
English
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Github Skills (8)
mobile-application10
flutter10
flutter-game10
dart10
mobile-development10
app-dev10
flutter-apps10
java6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
immich-app/immich
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Flutter)
Mobile Developer (Flutter)Contributions:495 reviews, 18 commits, 547 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Zack primarily focused on improving the mobile application built with Flutter. The contributions include fixing out-of-memory errors related to large asset uploads, integrating a cancellation token for backup processes, and implementing code for handling thumbnail uploads. They also made changes to the backup and websocket services within the mobile application.
videosmobile-appvideobackup-solutionbackup
zp-forks/immich
Jun 2022 - Sep 2024
Self-hosted photo and video backup solution directly from your mobile phone.
Contributions:4 PRs, 60 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 3 months
phonemobile-phonehostedvideovideo-backup
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