Aryan Baburajan

I'm a 19-year-old graphics / 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

What I'm working on

• [github]LLM Playground: A from-scratch implementation of the original “Attention Is All You Need” Transformer, with multi-head attention, sinusoidal positional embeddings, encoder-decoder layers, training, and text generation.
• Finding ways to solve people’s problems through software.

Highlights

• [website]Intern @ Frappe: Built a proof-of-concept Gunicorn worker using Python 3.14 subinterpreters for enabling true parallel execution beyond the GIL.
• [youtube][github]Ducktape Game Engine: 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.
• [github]Contributed to SerenityOS: Improving support for Unicode character encoding from ASCII and porting various native applications to their new GUI markup language.
• Game Development Workshop Mentor: Mentored 100+ students through introductory Three.js and Unity game development workshops.

Side Quests

• [website] [github]X Embed — A lightweight way to embed X and Twitter posts by replacing the domain in their URLs.
• [website] [github]Quaviz — Interactive 3D visualizer for comparing the scale of objects, animals, landmarks, and vehicles.
• [youtube]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.
• [github]Hotfix Chrome Extension — Fixes quirks on the internet
• [website] [github]Raylib Docs — A hosted, full API documentation reference for the Raylib game-programming library.
• Video Games
  • [itch.io]Hearsay — Interactive fiction: did you kill Tracy Stakes?
  • [itch.io]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
• [github]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]Regina — Brainfuck Interpreter using regex operations
• [website] [github]DotPFP — Half-tone image generator
• [github]Stranger Things VR — A VR project inspired by Stranger Things.
• [github]Robot — Web crawler
• [website] [github]KEAM Mark Calculator — Mark calculation for KEAM
• [website] [github]Emotify — JavaScript library for custom website emotes
• [website] [github]LifeTree — Life events as Git branches

Contact

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