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.
12 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 (127)
z-machine10
windows10
exe10
javascript10
openlibrary10
software-distribution10
html10
js10
electron10
v810
cross-platform10
macos10
nodejs10
electron-packager10
css10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
erkyrath/quixe
May 2015 - Mar 2020
A Glulx VM interpreter written in Javascript
Contributions:3 commits, 5 PRs, 281 pushes in 4 years 10 months
compilerjavascriptinterpreterglulx
erkyrath/glk-dev
Jan 2022 - Jan 2022
Miscellaneous Glk and Glulx files and documents
Contributions:1 commit, 3 PRs, 117 pushes in 1 day
glulxmiscellaneous
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