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About Zachary Kosma
Game Design & Development
Zachary "Zak" Kosma is an adjunct instructor in the Game Design & Development Department at the University of Silicon Valley, where he teaches GAM101: Foundations of Interactive Design.
Zak is the CEO and Co-Founder of Kosma Co LLC, a family-run independent game studio in Las Vegas that operates on a mutualist revenue-share model with roughly 27 contributors. He also serves as Principal IT Technician & Operations Specialist at Top Notch Computer Solutions an IT managed service provider in the Las Vegas valley.
His industry experience spans XR/VR engineering, business operations, QA, and education. He was XR Development Lead at CreatorUp, where he led a 12-person Unity team building Web-3D health sciences modules for grades 8-12, and XR Department Head at UNSHUT, where he managed developers building mixed-reality experiences and a real-time generative NPC system. He has also worked as a Subject Matter Expert (Games, HCI, & XR) at Grand Canyon University, an Education Facilitator and Software Engineer at Atlas School, and a Developer Business Operations Specialist at Accenture, supporting Google Play Apps & Games.
Zak brings a commercial, hands-on perspective to the classroom, grounded in years of shipping games and mentoring the next generation of developers.