Pablo Farias

Award-winning developer, senior technical leader and founder of Zenva, an education platform that teaches coding and game creation to over 1 million learners worldwide. Pablo's current focus include growing and expanding the educational offering at Zenva's B2C and K12 products to better support more students in the learning of programming, AI and digital technologies.

Pablo's work in the technology, gaming and education space includes:

The co-authoring of over 500 professional-grade online courses in game development (Unity, Unreal, Godot, Phaser), programming (Python, HTML & CSS, JavaScript, C++), VR/AR and artificial intelligence, as well as over 400 technical tutorials
The hands-on development and technical lead of web and mobile edTech applications used by millions of people, that provide stellar learning experiences while performing seamlessly under high traffic conditions
The development of VR titles to Steam and the Oculus Store including Insect Resolution VR, Let's Kill Zombies VR and Zenva Sky
The active participation of various ICT industry programs including the ACS Professional Partner Program, the Unity Certified Instructor Program, the Intel Software Innovator Program and EduGrowth.

Prior to starting Zenva, Pablo developed various technology products both as an entrepreneur and web development consultant. These included LMS and classroom management solutions, school database systems and even language learning apps.

Before moving into the realm of ICT, Pablo worked as a civil engineer in environmental groundwater simulations using Matlab, Excel and various mathematical models as part of his engineering degree.

Adapting a 3D Game to Unity VR

You can access the full course here: VR Projects – Third-Person Platformer Game Adapting a Canvas for VR To begin, we’ll be adapting our home screen canvas so that it

An Overview of Unity and C#

Check out our latest Unity courses in the Unity Game Development Mini-Degree. Transcript Part 1 The transfer component allows you to specify a game objects position, rotation, and scale. We’ve

Create Your First VR App with Unity – Unite India 2018

Create Your First VR Educational App with Unity from Pablo Farías Navarro Download the source code and starter apps from our presentation at the Unity game development conference Unite

Full-Stack Web Development Mini-Degree

Go from Zero to Full-Stack Engineer as you build web apps with HTML5, JavaScript, NodeJS, MongoDB, React, GraphQL, Angular, Git, AWS, and Azure. This project-oriented curriculum begins by covering the foundations

How to Render Sprites in Phaser 3

You can access the full course here: Create a Road Crossing Game with Phaser 3 Rendering Sprites Corrections At 11’00”, I say “340” when I should have said “640” (this

Free eBook – How to Create a Game with Phaser 3

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of our eBook How to Create a Game with Phaser 3. Written by Pablo Farias , certified Unity Developer and Founder of Zenva, this eBook will

Learn Unity Scripting in 13 Quick Minutes - C# Primer

Learn Unity Scripting in 13 Minutes

You can access our full Unity scripting course set here: Unity Game Development Mini-Degree Unity Game development isn’t just about object manipulation- mastering Unity scripting with C# is the key

Free eBook – Learn Unity by Creating a 3D Multi-Level Platformer Game

We’re thrilled to announce that we have just launched an eBook: Learn Unity by Creating a 3D Multi-Level Platformer Game. Created by Pablo Farias , certified Unity Developer and Founder of

Building Blocks of Virtual Reality Tutorial

You can access our full Virtual Reality course-set here: Virtual Reality Mini-Degree What is VR? Virtual Reality (VR) is a computer technology that allows us to simulate physical presence in

How to Prevent Simulator Sickness

You can access our full Virtual Reality course-set here: Virtual Reality Mini-Degree Simulator / VR Sickness Body sensations don’t match visual stimuli Sensitivity varies between people Must test with A

Join Zenva’s #GameDev Compo – Make a Game and Win Prizes

The compo has ended! Big thanks to everyone who participated! Huge congrats to the winning entries: Stefan Neidig with Bots Jorge Noro with Oblivious Caio Marchi Gomes do Amaral with

Source Code – JavaScript Course

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Student Success – Games by Zenva Students

Many of ZENVA students, in particular those enrolled in The Complete Mobile Game Development Course – Platinum Edition, have published their own games (for fun and for paid client work!).

js13kGames Tutorial Video Series

In this video series made for our YouTube channel subscribers, we cover the creation of a simple “cross the road” / “frogger” type of game using the Kontra JavaScript micro-framework.

Zenva’s Founder Interviewed by Australia’s PM Malcolm Turnbull

Great opportunity to share what we are doing at Zenva with coding education and it’s importance.

Ansible Quickies – Useful Code Snippets

Delete a remote folders and files in Ansible file: path=/some-folder/some-subfolder state=absent Sync files from a directory inside of another directory in Ansible synchronize: src=/home/fariazz/www/cursowordpress/wp-content/themes/twentyfifteen-child-zenva/ dest=/home/945837.cloudwaysapps.com/znmghedvsz/public_html/wp-content/themes/twentyfifteen-child-zenva delete=yes Execute bash

Meet Elizaveta: International Space Station Engineer and Zenva Student

Having previously worked on Energia (A Soviet Rocket!) Elizaveta currently works preparing technology for the International Space Station. Launched in 1998, ISS is the largest Artificial orbit that can be seen

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