About Me

  • Age 23

  • Residence Manhattan, NY

  • Email zmaizes@gmail.com

  • Games Gloomhaven, Brass Birmingham

  • Books The Stormlight Archives, Mistborn, The Iron Druid Chronicles, The Arc Of A Scythe, A Chorus of Dragons

I am Zachary Maizes, a Software Engineer with a Bachelor's in Science for Computer Science from Northeastern University. College was a great experience for me, and I'm making the most of my working life as well. My average week consists of work, game night, volunteering at my local food kitchen, reading, biking to dinner with friends, shabbat services, and cooking. Sometimes I'll go to a comedy show, concert, or movie, depending on what's available.

What I Do

Web Development

I am a Full-Stack developer with extensive front-end experience, primarily utilizing React.js, Next.js, and Typescript. I also have experience with SQL, a handful of AWS products, and version control, and focus on writing high quality, reusable code.

Game Development

Making games is a passion of mine, and I am most familiar with using the Unity engine. I have led various groups ranging up to 5 devs, and also make games by myself on occasion. My published works are available on my itch page, free to both play and download.

Testimonials

Tariq Porter @ Meta

Zachary worked at Meta on the Shop Builder team, implementing the "Expired Assets" project, which deals with how we prompt merchants to keep their storefronts "fresh" by replacing offers and collections, and removing stale sections. Zachary was able to very quickly take project ownership, running all dependencies with partner teams, PM, and design. He completed all of the project milestones weeks ahead of estimate with well thought out logical code structure, and unit tests. He went on to complete a number of stretch milestones, as well as writing a wiki and hosting knowledge transfer to an incoming team. Zachary became a core part of the Shop Builder team and is sorely missed!