Zachary Booth
Lead Software Engineer at NASA Ames Research Center
Newport Beach, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZachary Booth is a Lead Software Engineer with nine years of experience, currently driving development on the SHERPA project at NASA Ames Research Center. He blends a passion for simulations, AI, and game development with practical leadership in mission-facing software. A UC Santa Cruz computer science alum, Zachary applies research-grade rigor to production systems and enjoys bridging interactive simulation techniques with autonomous systems. Based in Newport Beach, he pairs independent game development experience with institutional engineering at NASA, giving him a rare perspective on real-time systems and user-centric tooling. Colleagues rely on him for thoughtful architecture and hands-on implementation across complex codebases.
9 years of coding experience
University of California Santa Cruz
Github Skills (18)
love2d10
lua10
raycasting10
voxel-engine10
3d9
3d-engine9
linguistics7
syntax7
shiny7
game-development6
tree-editor6
tree4
voxel3
editor3
javascript3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
groverburger/g3d
Mar 2019 - Dec 2022
Simple and easy 3D engine for LÖVE.
Contributions:9 releases, 95 commits, 13 PRs in 3 years 8 months
luag3draycasting3d-enginevoxel-engine
groverburger/ld48
Apr 2021 - May 2021
Contributions:37 commits, 5 pushes in 1 month
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