Joshua Chaitin-pollak
VP Of Software Engineering at Automated Tire, Inc.
Greater Boston United States
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Top SchoolJoshua Chaitin-pollak is a seasoned software engineering leader with 14+ years building robotics, computer vision, and cloud-native platforms, currently serving as VP of Software Engineering at Automated Tire. He blends hands-on systems design—from embedded Linux and robot fleets at Kiva to modern TypeScript, Go, and Python services—with team leadership and agile process scaling across startups and enterprise acquisitions. Joshua has repeatedly led architecture and execution for autonomy and warehouse robotics (Pickle Robot, 6 River Systems) and contributed to notable open-source projects such as hubot-scripts and Spring Cloud Connectors. Equally comfortable shifting pixels or shaping product strategy, he mentors engineers, drives hardware/software integration, and tackles thorny operational challenges. Based in Greater Boston and Cornell-trained, he combines deep technical breadth with a track record of shipping production robotics systems that moved from prototype to acquisition.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
M.Eng, Computer Science, M.Eng, Computer Science at Cornell University
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Github Skills (39)
hubot10
javascript10
coffeescript10
spring10
jdbc10
java10
javas10
connection-pool10
spring-boot10
hikaricp10
connection-pooling10
logback9
jar9
asynchronous9
apim9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
spring-cloud/spring-cloud-connectors
Oct 2014 - Mar 2015
Library to let cloud applications connect to services
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 issue in 4 months
Contributions summary:Joshua primarily focused on integrating HikariCP, a high-performance connection pool, into the Spring Cloud Connectors library. Their initial work involved adding the necessary dependencies and creating a `HikariCpPooledDataSourceCreator` class. They then addressed code formatting and configuration settings for the data source. Further modifications included merging upstream changes and disabling default configurations to troubleshoot and refine the HikariCP integration.
cloud-application
github/hubot-scripts
May 2013 - Mar 2014
DEPRECATED, see https://github.com/github/hubot-scripts/issues/1113 for details - optional scripts for hubot, opt in via hubot-scripts.json
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Joshua primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the Hubot scripts, particularly the `jira-issues.coffee` script. Their contributions include adding a new configuration parameter, `HUBOT_JIRA_IGNORE_USERS`, improving code readability through the use of a guarded `if`, and improving the alert handling in the `logentries-hearsay.coffee` script. The user also merged changes from other contributors, incorporating improvements into the Zendesk, PagerDuty, and Remember scripts, and made improvements to the `jenkins.coffee`, `graphite.coffee`, and `9gag.coffee` scripts.
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