Colton Ogden
Chief Technology Officer at From Zero!
Henderson, Nevada, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolColton Ogden is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 12 years of experience building interactive applications and developer-focused projects across web and game stacks. He blends hands-on engineering in React, Clojure/ClojureScript (Reagent), Unity and Lua with strategic product leadership at From Zero!, while also teaching computer science courses at Harvard Extension School. Colton contributes to open-source game projects—reworking core mechanics and UI for a popular Pong remake—demonstrating a knack for simplifying complex logic into elegant, playable systems. Based in Henderson, Nevada, he pursues continual learning in Rust, Haskell and Japanese, bringing a polyglot curiosity and educator’s clarity to both code and teams.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Saddleback College
English, Japanese
Github Skills (3)
game-development10
lua10
ui-design9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
games50/pong
Jan 2018 - Aug 2020
Atari's 1972 classic, implemented in Lua with LÖVE
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 3 PRs, 19 pushes in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Colton primarily focused on implementing core game mechanics and UI elements within the Lua-based Pong remake. They reworked paddle collision logic, replacing a complex formula with a simpler randomization approach, and initialized game states and scoring. Their commits also included adding the 'push' library for virtual resolution and resizing capabilities, alongside the setup of fonts and basic drawing functions.
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games50/match3
Feb 2018 - Sep 2020
Contributions:11 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
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