Zachary Plata
Developer Relations Engineer
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolZachary Plata is a Developer Relations Engineer with 11 years of software engineering experience, currently helping developers build interactive experiences at Rive after shaping Webflow’s developer platform and tooling. He blends hands-on engineering—across React, Node, WASM, iOS, Flutter, Unity, and C++—with developer advocacy, documentation, and SDK maintenance to make complex APIs approachable and productive. As an early DevRel hire at Rive and a senior DevRel at Webflow, he’s launched partner apps, produced tutorials and livestreams, and championed developer experience and platform improvements. Zachary has also applied product-driven engineering at Compass and Bestow, creating reusable design systems and customer-facing features informed by user research. Based in Chicago, he pairs strong technical breadth with community-facing skills and an appetite for building-in-the-open—plus a surprising passion for Chicago deep-dish pizza.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Iowa State University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (110)
smart-on-fhir10
3des10
animation10
api10
sdk10
rive10
membership10
data-api10
signature10
react10
calculator9
interactive9
ecdsa9
rust9
webassembly9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
rive-app/rive-use-cases
Mar 2022 - Oct 2023
Package for use case components featured on the Rive site
Contributions:1 review, 17 PRs, 19 pushes in 1 year 7 months
phpuse-caserive
cerner/cds-hooks-sandbox
May 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:84 PRs, 440 pushes, 123 branches in 9 months
demo-appreactcdshookscds-hooks
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