Marks Polakovs

Marks Polakovs
Years Active	2019 – Present
Positions Held	Treasurer
FLOPPYs Won:	Most Likely To Win A Fight Against A Bear (2020-21)
Hometown	depends who you ask
Current Location	Manchester
Degrees	MEng Computer Science (with a Year in Industry)
Allegiance	Computing

Latvian.

Trivia

• Former Head of Computing at URY ("it was great, but I never want to do that again" - Marks Polakovs 2022)
• Technical Director at York Vision
• Renowned corporate shill
  • Owns frankly worrying amounts of his employer's merchandise.
    • Including a pair of branded socks.
• Credited on more than one livestream as "Grumpy Tech Bodger"
  • Except for when that somehow becomes "Tech Director" in the credits
• Addicted to caffeine

2019-20

Marks was somehow poached by URY very early on and barely got involved with YSTV, with the exception of teaching Ben Allen the basics of React.js at 3am one night, which lead to the two of them producing many mistakes genuine technical innovations over the years. He was Graphics Op (read: F5-pusher) at ERN 2020, and also the proud owner of the USB stick that gave Ben a heart attack as he tried to get the stream going on zero hours of sleep.

2020-21

lol

2021-22

Somehow, despite (or perhaps due to?) moving away from York to Manchester for a year in industry, 2021-22 became the year that Marks switched allegiances and gave worrying amounts of his free time to YSTV.

Marks worked alongside Ben Allen to produce a graphics program for Roses 2022 using browsers inside OBS.