Zack Hovatter
Co-Founder at Boxer Studios
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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SeniorZack Hovatter is a pragmatic software engineer and founder with 14 years of experience building full-stack applications, cloud-native services, and indie games. As department lead at Sprockets.ai and co-founder of Boxer Studios, he spans front-end UI, backend infrastructure, and hiring—moving seamlessly between React-based interfaces, AWS serverless architectures, and data processing pipelines. His background includes building recommendation engines, IoT streaming products, and HIPAA-capable ML services, demonstrating an ability to ship practical systems across domains. He prefers building teams and products over traditional job searches, maintaining an independent, founder-first approach to his work. Based in Milwaukee, he combines hands-on coding with strategic leadership and a persistent side focus on releasing commercial games.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
English
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Github Skills (54)
responsive9
postcss9
css9
tailwindcss9
rapid9
google-maps-javascript-api8
widgets8
golang7
game-development7
react-styleguidist6
azerothcore6
entity6
error-messages6
sfml6
dm6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
hovatterz/light
May 2012 - Feb 2015
Contributions:24 commits, 4 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 years 9 months
sfmllightingletlight
hovatterz/Ludum-Dare-28
Dec 2013 - Dec 2013
Contributions:43 commits in 2 days
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