Douglas Pollock Email & Phone Number

San Bruno, Ca, Us

+ Led the client/frontend team and backend team for YouTube Comments.+ Grew the collective team from 10 people to 16 people.+ Built out a slate of metrics capable of finely tracking usage of different parts of the commenting experience in a consistent way, and drove the team to adopt stronger experimentation and metrics methodology.+ Drove overall architecture for the team -- focused on lowering serving latency, and increasing development velocity.

San Francisco, California, Us

+ JavaScript, React, SCSS, HTML, Python, Java, MySQL, Hbase, Thrift+ Led the ads frontend (UI and API) team, and helped build out cross-functional ties to design, research, product, and marketing. Grew this team from 3 engineers up to 25 engineers to date, and still growing fast.+ Led the company-wide engineering promotion process.+ Served in various capacities throughout the overall recruiting process -- from university recruiting through to how we close candidates.+ Acted as an ally to the diversity and inclusion efforts at Pinterest.+ Formed a group to keep the build and test green, called Build Imperators.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

+ App Engine, Java, JavaScript, Angular, Google Closure, Google Closure Stylesheets+ Built Google Developers Console (https://cloud.google.com/console) from scratch, and a large team (40+) around it.+ Formed a team of engineers to build a central metadata service for Google Cloud Platform.+ Wrote and ran a recurring training course for engineers joining Google Cloud Platform.+ Seeded a group of UX designers.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

+ C++, Perforce, Python, Linux, Django, Eclipse/CDT+ Managed a group of ~10 people;+ Lead a team of ~15 people embedding a JVM to allow dynamically updating plugins in a running web server.+ Designed a plugin architecture for the Google Web Server (GWS)+ Designed and implemented a C++ widget toolkit for GWS;+ Rearchitected the logging infrastructure and format for GWS;+ Reviewed code from several teams across Google -- providing architectural and design advice;+ Reduced latency in the code review process by several hours through automation;+ Reduced mail volume for the GWS team by about 90%;+ Built a bot for monitoring build health.

Houston, Texas, Us

+ Java (1.4.x – 1.6.x), Swing, Eclipse (3.2.1), NetBeans (5.5), XML Schema, JAXP, JAXB, SAX, JUnit, XMLUnit, JavaHelp (2.x), Perforce, Rally, Apache, Tomcat, Windows XP, Agile Development+ Ported a suite of Delphi applications to Java/Swing and JAXP/SAX. The applications were designed to run as applets or standalone;+ Designed and implemented servlets for displaying information and transferring data between client and server.+ Provided advice on user interface design;+ Researched various JSF development environments.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

+ Java (1.4.1 – 1.5.0), Eclipse (2.1.3 – 3.2), SWT, Ant, JUnit, CVS, OptimizeIt, YourKit, Bugzilla, Linux (Gentoo, Red Hat, Debian, Ubuntu), Windows XP, Solaris (8 – 10), MacOS X, GTK+ (2.2.1 – 2.8.8), Motif, XML, HTML, IRC, Rational Application Developer 6, Python+ Committer on the Eclipse Platform, both User Interface and Documentation components;+ Architected and implemented the command framework for menus, tool bars, status lines, linkability and key bindings;+ Designed and implemented different dialogs;+ Worked with other IBM and Eclipse teams on design and planning;+ Organized a team of about ten people with regards to builds, testing and quality assurance;+ Spoke at conferences about Eclipse, as well as running one tutorial;+ Mentored new employees;+ Worked with Linux distributions to resolve Linux-specific issues and packaging problems;+ Built an IRC bot that links with Eclipse's bug database, runs automated tests and reports failures and compile errors.

+ Java (1.3.1 – 1.4.2), Swing, NetBeans, OptimizeIt, Eclipse, Linux (Gentoo, Debian, Red Hat), Windows XP, XML, JAXP, DOM, Ant, JUnit, CVS, Bugzilla+ Created graphical tools, using Java/Swing and NetBeans;+ Developed a persistence layer using XML, JAXP and DOM;+ Produced Ant tasks to perform automated regression testing and quality assessment;+ Instructed other employees on how to use Java/Swing;+ Developed a drawing algorithm for directed acyclic graphs;+ Designed a French-language stemmer.

+ Java (1.3.1 – 1.4.2), Swing, NetBeans, Linux (Gentoo, Debian, Red Hat), Windows XP, XML, JUnit, CVS, Bugzilla+ Designed a framework for classifying documents;+ Developed a classification engine, written in Java and XML;+ Prepared a knowledge base of distinguishing features for classifying spam, pornography, hoaxes and viruses;+ Established automated regression testing (in the form of JUnit) as part of our development process;+ Created a prototype for a graphical plugin using VB Script and Outlook Forms.

+ Java, JESS, Together/J, UML, CVS, JSP, XSLT, CSS, Windows XP+ Created an expert system to serve as a personal assistant, written in JESS;+ Designed dynamic web pages to access the personal assistant (using XML, JSP and XSLT);+ Communicated my ideas to others using Together/J and UML.

+ Visual Age for Smalltalk, Perl, HP-UX, Shell Scripts+ Provided enhancements for a large-scale application, using Visual Age for Smalltalk, Perl and UNIX shell scripts;+ Achieved significant performance improvements in the organization's core systems.

Wayzata, Minnesota, Us

+ Smalltalk/V, Window Builder, SQL, Sybase, Windows+ Created a graphical tool, using Smalltalk/V, Window Builder and SQL;+ Managed and repaired bugs in the company's main application.+ Designed a graphical administrative tool;+ Communicated with team leads to build a list of requirements for administrative tools;+ Delivered these requirements in the form of use case documents and prototypes.

Wayzata, Minnesota, Us

+ Smalltalk/V, Window Builder, SQL, Sybase, Windows+ Created a graphical tool, using Smalltalk/V, Window Builder and SQL;+ Managed and repaired bugs in the company's main application.+ Designed a graphical administrative tool;+ Communicated with team leads to build a list of requirements for administrative tools;+ Delivered these requirements in the form of use case documents and prototypes.

B.C.S., Computer Science

High School Diploma