Mikol Graves
Founder at TZER0 Games
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolMikol Graves is a seasoned product-focused engineer and founder with 11 years of professional experience designing and building user-centered interfaces and developer-facing applications. Based in San Diego, he founded TZER0 Games to apply his UX and systems thinking to tabletop role-playing design, creating a modular engine that emphasizes fiction-forward play and streamlined mechanics. Prior to founding TZER0 he led UX and front-end efforts at cloud and security companies—including defining the flagship application at Styra—and contributed front-end improvements to the widely used Open Policy Agent website. His background includes senior UX and engineering roles at Google and VMware where he translated complex technical systems into usable, production-ready experiences. Comfortable shipping both visual design and implementation, he pairs deep product empathy with hands-on prototyping and front-end development. An unusual blend of game design and enterprise UX gives him a unique perspective on emergent rules, player agency, and how constraints drive better interaction design.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Information Design and Technology, M.S., Information Design and Technology at Georgia Institute of TechnologyB.U.S., Bachelor of University Studies, Magna Cum Laude, B.U.S., Bachelor of University Studies, Magna Cum Laude at The University of New MexicoAudio, Digital Audio, Sound Design, Music, Audio, Digital Audio, Sound Design, Music at City College of San Francisco
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (17)
javascript10
website-development10
css10
front-end-development10
html10
open-policy-agent8
opa8
authorization7
declarative7
authorizations7
bluebird6
tcp6
typescript6
amd6
networking6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
open-policy-agent/opa
Jul 2016 - Oct 2019
Open Policy Agent (OPA) is an open source, general-purpose policy engine.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 10 PRs, 22 comments in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Mikol primarily contributed to the website's front-end development. They implemented changes to the site's layout, including navigation and footer elements, and added features such as expandable code blocks. Furthermore, they refreshed the front page with updated content and use cases and made syntax highlighting fixes. The contributions focused on improving the user interface and overall presentation of the Open Policy Agent website.
opaopen-policy-agentpolicydeclarativejson
mikol/opa
Jul 2016 - Oct 2019
An open source project to policy-enable any application.
Contributions:15 pushes, 8 branches in 3 years 4 months
policyopen-source-projectopa
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