# Hyden Polikoff

> Engineer @ Quanta | Looking for d-a-w-g-s

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/hyden

Passionate about building powerful tools that are a joy to use. Strong attention to detail and mindset for accomplishing tasks with efficient processes and proven patterns.

Experience in full stack development with Python / Ruby and React. Broad understanding of AWS and hands-on experience deploying containerized applications in the cloud as well as setting up CI/CD with GitHub Actions.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Quanta
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Stealth Startup
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Co-Founder @ Conifer
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024
Had 120+ conversations from discovery to sales demos
Designed, built and shipped an MVP
Onboarded 5 users we used as mini design partners to iterate product

### Full Stack Engineer @ Motive
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Denver, Colorado, United States
Rebuilt chat bot with Langchain enabling streaming of steps
Implemented 2 credit integrations handling process from end-to-end 
Helped design and build multiple important consumer-facing features

### Software Engineer Intern @ Workiva
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Denver, Colorado, United States
Infrastructure Engineering Team (10 months)
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Created automatic generation of S3 replication configurations in CloudFormation to allow teams add replica buckets with just a simple one-line change
Added features to infrastructure running internal scripts like K8s topology spread constraints and node selectors
Developed python scripting to find resources detached from CloudFormation stacks that could be safely deleted and reduce costs
Implement Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling (KEDA) across numerous repositories and on internal infrastructure tools

Build-Test-Release Team (2 months)
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Worked to migrate endpoints in Python 2.7 application to Python 3 ensuring systems could continue to run on Google App Engine and support 65+ releases per day

### Full Stack Engineer Intern @ Peak Design
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
Migrated long-running jobs to Sidekiq/Redis to reduce failure rates
Refactored specific jobs to reduce runtimes by 80%+ allowing more frequent scheduling
Worked extensively with Shopify product metafields to enable valuable information delivery to customers shopping experience
Created internal tooling to replace hyperlink URLs across all help article instantly
Spearheaded creation of entirely new documentation system in Notion using P.A.R.A. and other organizational concepts

### Part Time Financial Analyst @ Peak Design
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Remote
Calculate monthly payments for US sales rep network as well as 
Tax calculations for US state sales tax 
HMRC VAT returns
Pay out affiliate network

### Finance Intern @ Peak Design
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
Managed entire accounts receivable balance worth $5M using QuickBooks and YayPay while working to resolve accounting and payment issues with customers via email. This reduced the trailing overdue balance from $2.5M plus to $1M - $1.3M

Coordinated with the wholesale ops team to address payment issues related to short shipments, backorders, and invoicing errors which helped established a superior efficiency of communication and issue resolution between the finance and wholesale ops teams

Performed varied and complex analyses using Microsoft Excel including calculating monthly payments for the US sales rep network as well as tax calculations for US state sales tax and HMRC VAT returns. This significantly reduced the workload of high-level employees allowing them to focus on important projects for growth and optimization that would otherwise not have been possible

### Production & Sales @ Mammoth Bar
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
Formed, packaged, and sealed over 100,000 bars
Set up and managed select wholesale accounts with customers around the Bay Area by cold-calling and leveraging network connections

### 6th Grade Basketball Head Coach @ San Francisco Waldorf School
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Laborer @ Evans and Wallace Contracters
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
Demolished interiors for remodel
Hauled and moved materials/trash in and out of job sites.
Primed materials for painting and assisted with flooring prep


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
University of Colorado Boulder College of Engineering & Applied Science

### Minor in Applied Mathematics
University of Colorado Boulder College of Engineering & Applied Science

### High School Diploma
San Francisco Waldorf High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/hydenp

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Source: https://flows.cv/hyden
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/hyden/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-04-05