Zachary Kaplan
Cofounder & CCO (Chief Creative Officer)
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolZachary Kaplan is a creative technologist and entrepreneur with 15 years of experience designing ambitious games and founding startups in the San Francisco Bay Area. As Cofounder and Chief Creative Officer at DreamWorld, he leads vision and product design informed by deep hands-on game design work dating back to RIFT, where he authored sprawling design docs and illustrated hundreds of characters and systems. His projects blend genre influences—from RTS and sandbox to shooters and roguelike elements—resulting in novel mechanics like real-time terrain manipulation and fully destructible, biome-driven maps. He has repeatedly turned audacious ideas into tangible prototypes and businesses, having also launched a streetwear brand and earlier founded CORE AEGIS. Known for obsessive attention to detail and a prolific design imagination, he combines systems thinking with artistry to craft player-driven, emergent experiences. Based in the Bay Area, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with a designer’s curiosity and an appetite for translating complex lore and mechanics into compelling gameplay.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Dropped out to create CORE AEGIS Inc. Business Product Development, Dropped out to create CORE AEGIS Inc. Business Product Development at New York UniversityHighschool Graduate, Highschool Graduate at Sacred Heart Preparatory Atherton
English, French, Hebrew
Github Skills (200)
gcp10
rsa-cryptography10
k8s10
jquery10
ecosystem10
docker-compose10
remote-access10
golang10
linode10
search-engine10
kubernetes10
container10
kops10
java10
go10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
razic/dev
Jan 2016 - Mar 2019
Docker-powered Development Environment
Contributions:12 PRs, 133 pushes, 21 branches in 3 years 3 months
remote-developmentdockerdocker-composedevelopment-environmentdevcontainer
razic/cracking-the-coding-interview
May 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 39 pushes, 4 branches in 11 months
cracking-the-coding-interviewcompetitive-programmingdata-structurescrackinggayle
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