Zak West
Student
Scunthorpe, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolZak West is an Electronic and Computer Engineering MEng student at the University of York with nine years of hands-on software experience and a BSc-equivalent performance so far. He bridges hardware and software—from silicon-level integrated circuit design to simulation projects like emergent flocking behavior in Java—and enjoys shipping polished user-facing systems. Outside academics he contributes to open-source game development (notably implementing settings and localization systems for Project Porcupine) and builds web front-ends with Preact and LESS. Currently on a year out before finishing his masters project, he focuses on pragmatic refactors, JSON-based configuration, and maintainable code practices. Based in Scunthorpe, UK, he pairs academic rigour with practical full-stack development experience. A detail that often gets overlooked: he’s comfortable moving between low-level electronic design and higher-level UX/code quality improvements, making him effective across the stack.
10 years of coding experience
Master of Engineering (MEng), Electronic and Computer Engineering, Master of Engineering (MEng), Electronic and Computer Engineering at University of YorkHigh School, High School at John Leggott College
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Github Skills (10)
management10
json10
configuration-management10
localization10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
unity3d9
uid8
front-end-development8
ui-design8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
TeamPorcupine/ProjectPorcupine
Aug 2016 - Nov 2017
Project Porcupine: A Base-Building Game...in Space!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 33 PRs, 69 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Zak primarily focused on implementing and maintaining the settings and localization systems within the game. They refactored settings management, introduced wrappers for data types, and migrated settings to a JSON format. In addition, the user worked on updating the settings menu in the UI and made several style corrections using StyleCop.
gamebase-buildingin-gamejavascriptporcupine
zwrawr/sloc
Mar 2018 - Aug 2024
simple tool to count SLOC (source lines of code)
Contributions:4 pushes, 4 branches in 6 years 5 months
count-tosloclineslines-of-code
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