Zak Kolar
Summary
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SeniorZak Kolar is a multidisciplinary educator and software developer based in the Greater Boston area, blending education theory with hands-on software development. As a Digital Learning Teacher with Waltham Public Schools since 2018 and a Programmer/Material Developer at EDC since 2020, he designs and implements digital literacy and computer science standards across K-12 curricula. He earned a double major in Education Studies and Computer Science from Brandeis University, where his honors thesis delivered an inline trainer plugin for Moodle to help instructors master its features. Zak is passionate about collaborating with teachers and coaches to infuse CS skills into existing lessons and projects. In his spare time he continues coding, reading, and running, turning classroom challenges into practical, scalable tools.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (52)
visual10
snap10
blocks10
visual-programming-language10
programming-language9
google-apps-script9
docx9
pdf9
google-forms9
visual-programming9
webextension8
php-library8
doc8
add-on8
rtf8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
zakkolar/scan-to-sheets
Feb 2020 - May 2022
Contributions:11 PRs, 11 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years 3 months
brandeisapprenticeship/digitalhistory
Oct 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:44 commits, 1 PR, 22 pushes in 8 months
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