Tarık Kaya
Founder at Game Diffuser
Bursa, Bursa, Turkey
Summary
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Top SchoolTarık Kaya is a founder and engineer with 8 years of experience building real-time interactive systems at the intersection of games, physics simulation, and machine learning. He produced a diffusion model for real-time interactive video generation that simulates gameplay, is entering a PhD to formalize the work, and has firsthand startup and fundraising experience from a London incubator. Previously he shipped core systems at Meta (spatial audio, VoIP, WebRTC codecs) and contributed production-grade tooling at Google (Android Game SDK and frame-pacing improvements). His background spans full-stack multiplayer game engineering, custom deterministic physics engines, and mobile/frontend work, reflecting both low-level systems depth and product-minded delivery. Based in Bursa, Turkey, he combines academic rigor with practical shipping experience and a knack for turning research prototypes into playable, scalable systems.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Istanbul Anatolian Highschool (Istanbul Erkek Lisesi)PhD Computer Engineering, PhD Computer Engineering at Bilkent UniversityMS Game Technologies, MS Game Technologies at Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical UniversityBS Computer Engineering, BS Computer Engineering at Boğaziçi UniversityGame Lab (BUG), Game Lab (BUG) at Bahcesehir University
Turkish, English, German
Github Skills (6)
redux-toolkit9
framer-motion9
tailwindcss7
generative-art7
nextjs6
shadcn-ui6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
tiqdev/valocards
Mar 2024 - Dec 2025
Valorant Player Card Generator is a tool to create custom player cards for Valorant players.
Contributions:1 release, 3 PRs, 46 pushes in 1 year 8 months
framer-motiongenerative-artnextjsredux-toolkitshadcn-ui
tiqdesign/tiqdesign.github.io
Jun 2018 - Sep 2021
Site
Contributions:4 PRs, 40 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 3 months
jekyll
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