Zane Claes
Conifer, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolZane Claes is a founder and engineering leader with 9 years of experience building mobile, cloud, and game systems, currently co-founding LFG Gaming and acting as the CTO-ish behind Furballs, an on-chain game. He led foundational platform work at Airbnb—creating the company’s first API team and building Notifications Infrastructure and Observability teams—blending hands-on engineering with people leadership. A lifelong coder who began programming at 12, Zane built the first iPad app to surpass iBooks in daily downloads and has shipped dozens of mobile apps with Node.js/AWS backends. He bridges game design, hardware, and ops, experimenting with IoT, CNC, and 3D printing while applying game-based neuroscience techniques to language learning. Fluent in Spanish, French, Mandarin, and Arabic, he pairs global experience with a practical obsession for technology as a means of communication and connection.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaCranbrook Kingswood
Chinese, Spanish, French
Stackoverflow
14,862reputation
873kreached
51answers
166questions
android
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xcode
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hyperlink
top-1%
textview
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scroll
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tableview
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Github Skills (200)
hyper10
automation10
cpp10
k8s10
web-applications10
home-automation10
airplay10
dataloader10
textview10
php10
privacy10
python10
banana10
dotnetcore10
windows10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
zaneclaes/switchboard
Jun 2019 - Nov 2021
Easy Envoy w/ TLS & basic routing
Contributions:22 commits, 2 PRs, 31 pushes in 2 years 5 months
envoyhttp3multiplexerclient-sidetls
zaneclaes/tiny-cluster
Sep 2019 - May 2021
Contributions:9 commits, 14 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 8 months
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