Ari Pollak is a Senior Software Engineer supporting a variety of projects including the Census, USACE, and the development of large data applications at scale. Ari received a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Northeastern University and has focused on back-end development and building interoperable automated data translation architectures for different industries including online marketing, financial services, and data science & demographics with Complete, LevelUp, and most recently Civis Analytics (now part of Grubhub). Ari is a longtime contributor to open-source software projects including Debian and is a volunteer and trustee of the Awesome Foundation and brings a wealth of skill with Linux, Python, JavaScript/Typescript, C, C++, Java, Ruby, Bash, Docker, PostGres, and other technologies.
Ari is an avid cyclist. To date, his longest single-day bike ride was going from Washington D.C. to Baltimore and back, which was 80 miles round trip.
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