Andrew Plotkin
Founder at Zarfhome Software Consulting
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Plotkin is a founder and senior software engineer with 13 years of experience building games, narrative tools, and web services across C++, C#, JavaScript, Objective-C, and portable C virtual machines. He combines systems-level work (distributed filesystems and CDN install tooling earlier in his career) with deep expertise in interactive fiction—designing VMs, compilers, and open-source I/O layers used to ship commercial and indie narrative titles. As a consultant and engineer he's implemented narrative and dialogue systems for Unreal and Unity, and led technical operations for the Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation and NarraScope. Based in Somerville, MA, he brings both product-focused indie development and production studio experience, plus an unusual ability to translate hobbyist IF techniques into robust, portable game-engine tooling.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, CS, Bachelor of Science - BS, CS at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (94)
z-machine10
javascript10
html10
platformio10
electron10
v810
nodejs10
electron-packager10
css10
chrome10
syntax-highlighting10
twine10
procedure10
nonlinear9
code-inspection9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
erkyrath/iosglk
Dec 2016 - Oct 2022
iPhone/iPad implementation of the Glk API
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch, 1 tag in 5 years 11 months
ipadiphone
erkyrath/Inform6-Testing
Sep 2020 - Apr 2026
Contributions:311 pushes, 103 branches, 1 tag in 5 years 8 months
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