Software & Game Developer, Aachen

I build games, software & the infrastructure behind them.

B.Sc. computer science at RWTH Aachen University and co-founder of Side Games. Five shipped game projects, including the winning entry of the 2025 RWTH Winter Game Jam.

Projects

What I’ve built

Side Games logo

Side Games

An alias I started with a colleague in 2020, under which we publish the games we build together. Three released titles so far, from platformers to shoot ’em up space shooters.

  • Studio
  • Arian Farahani
  • Jan Kleinschmidt
Choros logo

Choros

A 2D action space shooter where the goal is to stay alive as long as possible while fighting off waves of enemies and bosses.

  • Unity
  • C#
  • Android
S.A.C. logo

S.A.C.

You’re a secret agent working to stop a company from building a deadly weapon. Steal documents and take out employees in this stealth action game.

  • Unity
  • C#
  • Android
Cat Adventure logo

Cat Adventure

A run-and-gun platformer where you catch the mouse at the end of each level. Over 30 levels, three worlds and a boss fight at the end.

  • Unity
  • C#
  • Android

Skills & experiments

The lab

RiskLab

Gambling vs. investing, know the difference. A Monte Carlo simulation app built for the StochaHackathon SS 2026 at RWTH Aachen: live Blackjack with simulated odds for every move, a stock simulator based on Geometric Brownian Motion, and interactive probability-theory demos.

  • Monte Carlo
  • JavaScript
  • Plotly.js

Home Lab & Self-Hosting

I run and maintain my own home lab: virtual machines on Proxmox VE, services in Docker containers, and the networking that ties it all together, with Cloudflare in front of what goes public.

  • Proxmox VE
  • Docker
  • Cloudflare
  • Networking
Programming
C, Java, Python, JavaScript, React, HTML & CSS
Engines
Unity (C#), Godot (GDScript)
Tools
GitLab & GitHub, Docker, Cloudflare, Proxmox VE
Systems
Linux, Windows, macOS