ZYAGA BIOS v20.03 (C) 2003-2026 ZYAGA LLC CPU: CAFFEINE-POWERED ... OK MEM TEST: 640K ... OK (ought to be enough) MOUNTING /work ... 17 ENTRIES LOADING drew.profile ... OK LOCALE: EN + JA (日本語) ... OK
C:\ZYAGA> WHOAMI
A developer with a passion for breaking things.
Drew Kochanowski · Senior Software Engineer · Indie App Developer
I build apps, games and tools under ZYAGA LLC, and I've spent 20+ years building, modernizing and running production software. A background in security means I build things knowing how they break.

C:\ZYAGA> DIR /WORK 作品
| MODE | OWNER | DATE | NAME | STATUS |
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| -rwxr-xr-x | drew zyaga | 2026 | patternforge/ | [ONLINE] |
| -rwxr-xr-x | drew zyaga | 2026 | forever-japanese/ | [ONLINE] |
| -rwxr-xr-x | drew zyaga | 2006 – 2008 | cracked-productions/ | [ONLINE] |
| -r--r--r-- | drew zyaga | 2020 – 2022 | spot-your-light/ | [OFFLINE] |
| -r--r--r-- | drew zyaga | 2022 – 2024 | workresume/ | [OFFLINE] |
| -r--r--r-- | drew zyaga | 2021 – 2022 | lastdragonpb/ | [OFFLINE] |
| -r--r--r-- | drew zyaga | 2017 – 2022 | rincsart/ | [OFFLINE] |
| -r--r--r-- | drew zyaga | 2016 – 2019 | oneil/ | [OFFLINE] |
| -r--r--r-- | drew zyaga | 2015 – 2021 | amerikajin/ | [OFFLINE] |
| -r--r--r-- | drew zyaga | 2013 – 2014 | syndorea/ | [OFFLINE] |
| -r--r--r-- | drew zyaga | 2010 – 2012 | hacklessons/ | [OFFLINE] |
| -r--r--r-- | drew zyaga | 2009 – 2017 | behemyth/ | [OFFLINE] |
| -r--r--r-- | drew zyaga | 2009 – 2013 | langfreq/ | [OFFLINE] |
| -r--r--r-- | drew zyaga | 2008 – 2026 | zyaga-com/ | [OFFLINE] |
| -r--r--r-- | drew zyaga | 2007 – 2026 | nmapyourself/ | [OFFLINE] |
| -r--r--r-- | drew zyaga | 2007 – 2008 | rainbowcracker/ | [OFFLINE] |
| -r--r--r-- | drew zyaga | 2006 – 2008 | infectus/ | [OFFLINE] |
17 DIR(S) · 3 ONLINE · 14 OFFLINE --More-- (13 older)
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[ONLINE]#01 PatternForge Chess tactics trainer / 2026 Train puzzles. Forge patterns. A chess tactics trainer built on spaced repetition, so patterns stick instead of fading after one session. RUN PATTERNFORGE >
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[ONLINE]#02 WoW Forever Japanese World of Warcraft addon / 2026 Play WoW Forever in Japanese: quests, NPC dialogue, tooltips and menus, read aloud by Japanese voices, with the game's own English one key away. RUN FOREVER-JAPANESE >
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[ONLINE]#03 Cracked Productions Web show archive / 2006 – 2008 A monthly hacking, modding and tech-comedy video show I made with a friend as a teenager. Two seasons, 22 episodes, now recovered and back online. RUN CRACKED-PRODUCTIONS >
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[OFFLINE]#04 Spot Your Light Small-business marketing agency / 2020 – 2022 A marketing and web agency for small businesses and job seekers: compelling copy, social media and a website that shows off the work. RUN SPOT-YOUR-LIGHT >
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[OFFLINE]#05 WorkResu.me Resume and portfolio SaaS / 2022 – 2024 Marketing for the average person: sign up, enter your information once, and get a personal website, a PDF resume and an AI-written cover letter in a few minutes. RUN WORKRESUME >
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[OFFLINE]#06 The Last Dragon PB Paintball video channel / 2021 – 2022 The last guy trying to play tournament paintball with a Bob Long Dragon Intimidator: helmet-cam footage from tournaments, team practices and drills. RUN LASTDRAGONPB >
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[OFFLINE]#07 RincsArt Illustrator portfolio / 2017 – 2022 The portfolio and commissions site of Rincs, a freelance illustrator. Four designs in six years, from a WordPress theme to a Vue single-page app to Spot Your Light's WordPress network. RUN RINCSART >
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[OFFLINE]#08 O'Neil & Associates Company website / 2016 – 2019 The public website of O'Neil & Associates (ONEIL), a product-support company: its ONeSOURCE product suite, services and industries, built in ColdFusion with a custom router and templates. RUN ONEIL >
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[OFFLINE]#09 アメリカ人 Japanese-learning blog / 2015 – 2021 One American's journey of learning Japanese through immersion: study tips, tools and tutorials, and the anime, games, films and music used to learn from. RUN AMERIKAJIN >
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[OFFLINE]#10 Syndorea 2D RPG learning game / 2013 – 2014 A 2D RPG where every battle is a flashcard: answer right and fast to attack, heal and block. Built from scratch in C++ with Allegro 5, and the game LearnRPG grew out of. RUN SYNDOREA >
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[OFFLINE]#11 HackLessons Hacking tutorial site / 2010 – 2012 Hacking, modding and lock picking tutorials with videos, all free, sorted by topic instead of by episode: what Cracked Productions grew into. RUN HACKLESSONS >
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[OFFLINE]#12 Behemyth Design studio, then game studio / 2009 – 2017 My company before ZYAGA: first a web design studio bending the web to make the impossible possible, then Behemyth LLC, an indie game studio asking who says learning can't be fun? RUN BEHEMYTH >
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[OFFLINE]#13 LangFreQ Word frequency tool / 2009 – 2013 The most common words in a language, counted from what people were actually writing on Twitter, so you could study the top 100 words first instead of 100 random ones. RUN LANGFREQ >
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[OFFLINE]#14 zyaga.com, before this one Personal site and blog / 2008 – 2026 Eighteen years of zyaga.com: a blog about development, Japanese and martial arts that became a portfolio, before the site you're reading now. RUN ZYAGA-COM >
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[OFFLINE]#15 NmapYourself Online port scanner / 2007 – 2026 Scan yourself over the internet with Nmap and see what hackers see when they scan your ports. Free, for almost twenty years. RUN NMAPYOURSELF >
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[OFFLINE]#16 RainbowCrack Online Online password-hash cracker / 2007 – 2008 Crack NTLM Windows password hashes for free, without downloading gigabytes of rainbow tables: paste the hash, pick a speed, and the result arrives by email. RUN RAINBOWCRACKER >
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[OFFLINE]#17 InfectUs Windows hacking tool / 2006 – 2008 A proof of concept that showed how easily anyone could build a virus out of Windows' own tools: tick what you want to happen, and InfectUs writes the batch files. RUN INFECTUS >
C:\ZYAGA> TYPE ABOUT.TXT 経歴
My name is Drew Kochanowski. I like to break things as much as I like to make things.
I'm a senior software engineer and technical lead with more than twenty years in the industry: healthcare, aviation, technical publishing and home services, mostly PHP/Laravel and JavaScript on the web, with Go, Python and mobile along the way.
On the side I run ZYAGA LLC, an indie studio that ships my own apps. I'm also a hacker at heart, which shapes how I build everything else.
DESIGN.EXE
Content should be responsive, accessible, breathable, and easy to digest. In other words, I like to make things pretty.
DEVELOPMENT.EXE
Being a full-stack developer means I have the freedom to build a coherent structure between the design, code, and data.
SECURITY.EXE
In today's world, a focus on security is no longer optional. Not understanding how to break code means not understanding how to protect it.
- STACK
- PHP / Laravel / JavaScript / Vue / React Native / Go / Python / MySQL / PostgreSQL / GCP / Docker / CI/CD / Supabase / Security
- CERTS
- CompTIA Security+ / PNPT / PWPA