Aryan Baburajan

I'm an 18-year-old backend / systems programmer from Kerala, India, currently studying Computer Science at Christ College of Engineering (2025–2029). I have been programming since I was 9, with a deep passion for building complex systems from scratch and understanding their architecture.

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Highlights

• Contributed to SerenityOS: Improving support for Unicode character encoding from ASCII and porting various native applications to their new GUI markup language.
• Delivered a talk at KochiFOSS: to a 100+ member college audience as the youngest student there from highschool sharing my experience in building a game engine from scratch.
• TinkerPlay: Held a workshop on the basics of Game Development to a room of first and second years using p5.js. Super proud about having taught them the joy of reading documentation, coding, and experimenting in their projects.

What I'm working on

• Ducktape Game Engine (2021–present) [youtube] [github]
  • 3D game engine written in C++ using OpenGL, EnTT, and Dear ImGui.
  • Features rendering system, scene serialization, editor tooling, and native C++ DLL scripting.
  • Built a community and hosted multiple hackathons around it.
• Finding ways to solve people’s problems through software.

Side Projects

• Mirage — A personalized version of ProductHunt.com that caters to the user’s interests with a user authenticated product dashboard and an email newsletter system to periodically send recommendations through cron jobs [github]
• DirectShare — File sharing service [github]
• Godspeed — Room-based file transfer using WebSockets (incomplete) [github]
• Burrito — Notion and Excalidraw combined into a Note-taking canvas (incomplete) [github]
• Video Games
  • Duck Duck Golf — Golf obstacle course [itch.io]
  • Chaos Car Destruction — Physics-based destruction game [itch.io]
  • VROOM — Procedurally generated track arcade racer [itch.io]
  • Woosh — Train railway sandbox [itch.io]
  • Hectagon — Procedural Island Generator [itch.io]
• KEAM Mark Calculator — Mark calculation for KEAM [website] [github]
• Hotfix Chrome Extension — Fixes quirks on the internet [github]
• Robot — Web crawler [github]
• Plaintext — Minimalist text-only browser [github]
• Regina — Brainfuck Interpreter using regex operations [github]
• DotPFP — Half-tone image generator [website] [github]
• Emotify — JavaScript library for custom website emotes [website] [github]
• LifeTree — Life events as Git branches [website] [github]

Contact

• Send me a DM on X or reach out via email at aryanbaburajan2007 at gmail dot com.