Ari Pollak
Software Engineering Consultant at Kairon Health
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAri Pollak is a software engineering consultant based in Washington, D.C., with 18 years of experience helping startups and mid-size companies solve technical challenges. He specializes in performance tuning and security hardening for web and data applications, delivering practical, measurable improvements to latency and risk profiles. His career spans product and consulting roles across foodtech, analytics, health, and government contracting — from LevelUp and Grubhub to Civis Analytics and Kairon Health — giving him cross-domain fluency in scaling real-world systems. Known for short, impact-focused engagements, he rapidly onboards teams and delivers production-ready fixes informed by a BS in Computer Science from Northeastern University.
18 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Northeastern University
Github Skills (200)
dataflow10
web-application10
testing10
rspec10
stimulusjs10
metadata10
automation10
chat10
gemfile10
linter10
nvim10
compose10
raspberry-pi-camera10
time-tracking10
html10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
aripollak/kickstart.nvim
Nov 2023 - Mar 2025
My neovim config. Adds some additional configuration and plugins on top of the stock kickstart.nvim. Most of my customizations are in lua/custom/plugins, but some are in main init.lua for things that need to be customized there, like lspconfig.
Contributions:1 PR, 37 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 3 months
aripollak/random
Mar 2007 - Jan 2023
Contributions:181 commits, 129 pushes in 16 years
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