Zenith Drake
Site Lead at Help Foundation, Inc.
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZenith Drake is a hands-on Site Lead and community-focused professional with a decade of experience blending practical workshop skills, caregiving, and front-end software contributions. Based in Cleveland, he teaches vocational and soft skills to individuals with developmental disabilities while supervising paid work programs, drawing on a background in metalsmithing, technical instruction, and quality-controlled fabrication. A creative problem-solver with an MFA and BFA, Zenith has translated his meticulous craftsmanship into software work—contributing UI improvements and SVG-driven polish to the ScratchAddons browser extension under the handles ZenithKnight/NitroCipher. He pairs mechanical aptitude (from plasma tables to lab optics) with clear communication and training ability, and has a track record of process improvements, incident documentation, and team mentorship. Notably, his blend of arts-led design thinking and hobbyist cybersecurity/system integration interests gives him a rare cross-disciplinary perspective on usability, safety, and operational reliability.
10 years of coding experience
Master’s Degree, Master of Fine Arts: Metalsmithing & Jewelry Design, Master’s Degree, Master of Fine Arts: Metalsmithing & Jewelry Design at Bowling Green State UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Individualized Major Progam: Socially Reactive Clothing Design, Bachelor’s Degree, Individualized Major Progam: Socially Reactive Clothing Design at Indiana University Bloomington
Github Skills (12)
css10
google-chrome-extension10
webextension10
javascript10
chrome-extension10
addon10
ui-design9
html8
browser-extension8
firefox-webextension8
firefox-addon8
sc7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
ScratchAddons/ScratchAddons
Oct 2020 - Oct 2020
All-in-one browser extension for Scratch.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 11 PRs, 55 comments in 28 days
Contributions summary:Zenith primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Scratch Addons extension, focusing on UI improvements and feature implementations. They refactored and improved existing signature expansion functionality, including styling and button behavior. The user also added new UI elements, such as for showing message types and their details and refined the user interface by replacing emojis with SVG icons and adjusting styles for enhanced user experience and readability.
firefoxbrowserall-in-onewebextensionchrome
ZenithRogue/theme3
Nov 2017 - Oct 2022
A small userscript to theme Scratch 3.0
Contributions:17 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
scratchuserscript
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