Benjamin "Zags" Zagorsky

Zags is a systems and architecture wizard. He has led dozens of full-stack software development projects between both the private and public sectors.

Zags graduated from Harvard in 2012 with bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science. He previously worked at Google and Seven Bridges Genomics, and was the CTO and co-founder of BetterFit Technologies. He is also a published game theorist.

Kevin Fan

Kevin is a specialist in building scalable web applications, especially those using Python, Django, SQL, and Amazon Web Services.

Kevin previously worked at Amazon, developing a piece of the software pipeline responsible for building the search index for Amazon.com’s shopping catalog. He also co-founded BetterFit Technologies. Kevin graduated from Harvard with a degree in computer science.

Josh Zagorsky

Josh builds Android and iOS apps, and does Python web development. He also handles company finances.

He previously wrote analytics software at Jane Street Capital, built an e-commerce website at earthCell Batteries, and wrote cost-saving software for steel mills. Josh graduated from Harvard in 2011 with a degree in chemistry and physics, and a minor in economics.

Miriam Farkas

Miriam is a full-stack developer who specializes in managing, organizing, and occasionally wrangling large and complex projects. She is known for her preternatural ability to zap (code) bugs and kill office fern plants, sometimes simultaneously. Miriam also runs Zagaran's recruitment, hiring, and mentorship efforts, which primarily involves hawking squishy animals at career fairs.

Formally trained in linguistics, Miriam has a bachelor's degree from Harvard and a master's degree from the University of Cambridge. She puts her cuneiform skills to good use every day.

Alvin Siu

Alvin is a full-stack developer and your friendly, neighborhood front-end superhero. He is also the company's travel and logistics expert, training guru, requirements whisperer, internal development maven, and general wearer of many proverbial hats (if we listed all of them, there would be no space for his photo).

Alvin graduated from Harvard in 2013 with a degree in molecular and cellular biology and was previously pursuing an M.D. at University of Michigan Medical School. Alvin can be found passionately advocating for his favorite restaurants around the world, recommendations welcome.

Conor Hobert

Conor leads sales and business development for Zagaran's product, TaxCredit.ai.

He also assists with new product development and market validation, interviewing industry experts and prospective customers in the target markets of the new products we're developing.

He graduated from The College of Charleston in South Carolina with a degree in finance.

Sean Esterkin

Sean is a full-stack software developer who can get acquainted with a new codebase almost instantly. We basically just drop him into our thorniest projects and watch the list of bugs disappear.

Sean has a bachelor of science with dual majors in computer science and math from the University of Rochester. He was a software developer at Epic Systems and Battelle before joining Zagaran.

Tucker Jaenicke

Tucker is a full-stack developer who also has extensive experience with iOS and Android development using Flutter.

He graduated from Tufts University with a degree in computer science. Tucker likes sports, rowing, and frisbee because he's from New England.

Daniel Dinjian

Daniel is a full-stack developer with a passion for solutions architecture.

He graduated from Tufts University with a bachelor's and a master's in computer science with a focus in machine learning. In his free time, Daniel likes to play music, read, and do yoga.

Grace Whitney

Grace is a full-stack web developer and a guru of front-end development. She also has experience developing apps in React Native.

Grace graduated from Harvard in linguistics, with a focus in mathematics and a secondary field in computer science. Much of her free time is filled with baking and crossword puzzles.

Noah Houghton

Noah is a jack-of-all-trades programmer with experience in mobile, full-stack development, and data visualization.

Noah graduated from Harvard University in 2020 with a joint degree in medieval history and literature and folklore and mythology, as well as a minor in computer science. His thesis investigated modern and medieval perspectives on Viking women warriors – yes, he does want to talk about it. He splits his free time between playing music, planning elaborate themed events, and adventuring with friends in and out of Boston.

Sarah Yoon

Sarah is a full-stack developer with expertise in modern frontend and mobile technologies. She is also experienced with blockchain technologies and smart contract development. In addition to her engineering responsibilities, Sarah is heavily involved in hiring and training at Zagaran.

Sarah graduated from Harvard College in 2021 with a major in Computer Science and a minor in Women's and Gender Studies. In her spare time she likes making music, dancing, cooking, and trying new restaurants with the homies.

Heemyung Hwang

Heemyung is a full-stack web developer with additional experience in cross-platform mobile app development using Flutter. They also retain a fondness for JavaScript, their first language.

Heemyung graduated from Harvard with a degree in mathematics and a secondary in computer science. They like word games, science fiction, and regularly switching hobbies.

Chris Simonetta

Chris manages the office, HR, events and administration at Zagaran. He is usually sporting a hat of some kind, which is definitely not because he's losing his hair. He really likes using gifs. He also has no idea what dap, gas, bussin or rizz means, which makes him clutch and gucci.

Chris graduated from Berklee College of Music in the Stone Age (and held the title as the "Eldest Zagaranian" for two years straight, even though he's not straight) with a degree in Music Business & Management. He still does some music on the side because it's so financially lucrative. Before Zagaran, he managed entertainment agencies in Los Angeles, which is where his addiction to caffeinated beverages stems from.

Emily Gheewalla

Emily is a full-stack developer with a passion for learning new programming languages and frameworks. Though she doesn't get to use it much anymore, she has a special place in her heart for functional programming with Standard ML.

Emily graduated from Tufts University in 2021 with a degree in computer science. In her free time, you can find her seeing musicals and playing games (especially of the video, board, and card varieties). Her seemingly never-ending hunger for competition means she will enjoy almost any sport you put in front of her. Specifically, her favorite sports to watch and/or play are softball, rugby, and basketball and, of course, because she's from Massachusetts, she's also particularly fond of cheering on the Celtics, Red Sox, Patriots, Bruins, and Tufts Women's Rugby team (Go Jumbos!).

Lukus Stricker

Lukus is a full-stack developer who also develops mobile apps in iOS and Android. Lukus will be your friend whether you want him to or not, and especially when you don't. He graduated from Harvard, where he was a member of the wrestling team, in 2022 with a degree in applied mathematics in computer science.

When you meet Lukus, your first thought is probably "wow, this is without a doubt the single coolest person I know," but in reality, Lukus is a closeted nerd with a deep love for Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh, and chess. He's currently attempting to transition into Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, making use of his wrestling background.

Theo Yannekis

Theo is a full-stack engineer specializing in complex applications and systems. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a degree in statistics & machine learning. After finishing school he did some teaching before moving into the tech world.

He likes neighborhood parks, soccer, muffins, and strong opinions about things that don't matter.

Seth Gillett

Seth is a full-stack engineer with additional experience developing iOS and Android apps. He also gathers a strange enjoyment out of using long regular expressions that confounds his colleagues.

He has a fondness for social engineering games (like Avalon), and a greater affinity for all things Star Wars than he would like to admit. You can also find him doing yoga, rock climbing, and overfilling glasses of water.

Akiva Jackson

Akiva decided to leave his long-term stable career prospects as a wandering Jewish educator in Berlin to join the wild west of software engineering. Clearly this was fate: back in college he named his firetruck red unicycle Ada Lovelace.

Akiva is a front-end engineer turning full-stack. His hobbies include last-minute cooking for fifty, reciting German poetry to impatient friends, biking in a t-shirt in winter, and making a fool of himself on a slew of musical instruments.

Vijaya Vishwanathan Nair

Vijaya is a quality assurance analyst who has a bachelor’s degree in electronics & communication and a master’s degree in business administration.

Vijaya is a meditator and has been meditating for over a decade. She is a member of and volunteer for the Art Of Living Foundation. In her free time, she enjoys listening to music, solving Sudoku, and playing tennis and badminton.

Duncan Sorenson

Duncan is a dedicated full-stack software engineer with a background in programming, advanced math, statistics and machine learning instruction.

Duncan can usually be seen running along the Charles River and in races around Boston, usually wearing his signature bright pink hat or banana costume. He also dabbles in cycling, boxing, ultimate frisbee, archery, hiking, rugby, rock climbing, and pretty much any sport that he stumbles into.

Percy Street

Percy is a full-stack engineer who enjoys working on mobile projects. While he hasn't had the chance to at Zagaran yet, he'd love to work on an Erlang project one of these days.

Percy graduated from Tufts University in 2023 with degrees in computer science and visual art. When he's not coding, he enjoys working on an in-progress graphic novel, reading, and practicing tae-kwon do. He also thinks recursion is cool. He also thinks recursion is cool.

Ife Omidiran

Ife is a full-stack developer who loves learning new frameworks and programming languages. Ife graduated from Harvard University in 2022 with a degree in computer science and a secondary in women and gender studies. After graduation, she taught computer science to high school students and traveled the world.

When not at work, you can find her going to concerts, meditating, and trying new cafes in search of the best latte in Boston.

Matthew Coleman

Matthew is a full-stack engineer with experience programming robotic systems and machine learning algorithms. He is passionate about teaching and learning these topics, but what he enjoys most of all is building great systems to do all the hard work for him--to make more time for oil painting and going to the beach.

Matthew graduated from Princeton University in 2023 with a degree in mechanical and aerospace engineering, with certificates in robotics and intelligent systems as well as statistics and machine learning.

Katie Baldwin

Katie is a full-stack engineer with experience in web development. She enjoys the practical side of programming that helps improve the efficiency of processes and makes people's lives easier.

Katie graduated from Princeton in 2024 with a degree in Computer Science and certificate in Linguistics. Outside of work, she enjoys playing the cello and singing. When not doing something music-related, you can find her exploring somewhere, playing word games, or drinking coffee.

Lu Esteban

Lu is a full-stack developer passionate about database design optimization and application security. She enjoys wading into the details of user flow and anticipating pain points before they appear.

Lu graduated from Princeton with an engineering degree in CS and a minor in Asian American Studies. After work (and sometimes before), you can find her at various food trucks and fruit booths trying to find the best snack in the city. Her seasonally rotating list of pastimes includes concert-going, long walks by the water, gardening, and making the perfect pickled atchara.

Bryan Han

Bryan is a full-stack engineer with experience in web development and backend optimization. He is interested in distributed systems and game development and hopes to release his own video game someday.

Bryan graduated from Harvard in 2024 with a degree in computer science and a secondary in economics. He enjoys everything music; if you don’t see him at the Boston Symphony Orchestra, he is probably in his room playing guitar or listening to jazz on his LP record player. He also loves playing golf and especially basketball, with some of his friends calling him the Yellow Mamba.

Isabel Haas

Isabel is a full-stack developer who enjoys learning new programming languages and technologies. She is also interested in programming language theory and design.

Isabel graduated from Tufts University in 2024 with a degree in computer science, with a minor in cognitive & brain science. In her free time, she loves cooking and exploring new hiking and running routes in the Boston area.

Noa Kligfeld

Noa is a full-stack engineer with a passion for theoretical computer science. She loves every part of software engineering: from defining high-level requirements to optimizing at the lowest level.

Noa graduated from Harvard in 2024 with a degree in Computer Science and a secondary in Psychology. She spent her time in college singing a capella, knitting while watching The Bachelor (and all of its derivatives), student teaching several core undergraduate CS courses, and volunteering as a peer counselor. At Zagaran, she enjoys participating in (and occasionally stirring up) antics, shenanigans, tomfoolery, nonsense, mischief, and monkey business. She will do her best not to psychoanalyze you, but makes no promises.