Zack Darden
Senior Software Engineer at Pahdo Labs
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZack Darden is a Senior Software Engineer with a track record of taking products from 0→1 across games, backend systems, and retail platforms. He blends full‑stack and game development skills—shipping Unity C# titles, building P2P networking and matchmaking systems, and implementing Java SpringBoot microservices and TypeScript UIs. As Founding Engineer #1 at an AI gaming startup he prototyped RL model training and computer vision pipelines, and more recently drove gameplay and backend systems for Steam releases. Comfortable in both startup and enterprise contexts, he’s delivered performance optimizations and cross‑platform integrations while leading small teams. Based in the Raleigh–Durham area, he pairs entrepreneurial initiative with deep systems experience dating back to IBM and Toshiba retail solutions.
3 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at North Carolina State University
Github Skills (5)
interop7
python5
javascript5
nodejs5
discord-bot4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Regression-Games/RGUnityBots
Aug 2023 - Jan 2025
Unity Package for Regression Games Bot support
Contributions:533 reviews, 308 PRs, 785 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Regression-Games/SimpleBotTemplate
Nov 2022 - Mar 2023
A simple example of how to get started with the rg-bot package
Contributions:5 reviews, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 3 months
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