About me

Some people call me Arya Stark, others call me Arya Jemo. Whichever name you prefer, I am passionate about IT, Design, and Art. I work in tech for a big company. I also give lectures at the university. Additionally, whenever I have spare time, I engage in independent international humanitarian work with various NGOs. Over the past few years, I have participated in four humanitarian actions to support war and genocide survivors.

I grew up in France and have enriched my life and career through 3 programs in Greece, Netherlands & a last one at the Swiss border. These experiences have fostered a love for travel and cultural exploration, leading me to move around Europe.

Some quotes I like

• “Be the change you want to see in the world”. Gandhi
• “Be insatiable, be crazy”. Steve Jobs, 2005, Stanford University
• “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Nelson Mandela.
• “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” Albert Einstein.

1999

At 4 years old, my first interaction with a computer. My father had a Power Macintosh G3 and I started to play Mahjong on it.

2003 - At 7 years old, I started to play video games.

Half-Life and Counter-Strike 1.6 were played a lot during those times. My brother used to play and I used to watch. I hated Half-Life because it was too scary. So when my brother was at school, I would play Counter-Strike 1.6, which was also a violent game but less so than Half-Life. I was so afraid to shoot the bots, especially after seeing the 16x16 pixels of blood. So I started to understand how to configure the game to play alone on the map. After spending my time shooting at no one on all the maps, I had to admit it was boring and I learned how to download new custom maps and install them.

2006 - 10 years old, I was the only one at school who didn’t have a Gameboy.

Yes, I never had any Gameboy, my father didn’t want me to play with it. Fortunately, I had a special relationship with my computer. I managed to install an emulator with Pokémon ROMs! I told my friends at school that I had a Gameboy at home, but no one believed me or could understand the concept of emulating a console. I also discovered the action replay tool to cheat and have all the Pokémon. Again, no one believed me that I had all the legendary Pokémon, etc.

2007 - 2010 - Middle school, my first business.

Let’s not talk about the ethical aspect of it, but I was offering a paid service in the schoolyard to hack PSP (Playstation Portable) and Wii, and it worked pretty well! I also had my first phone, an HTC Wildfire with a single-core 528 MHz CPU. I, of course, hacked it to install lighter custom ROMs and overclocked it to 768 MHz.

2010 - 2013 - High school, my second business.

As the smartphone market was growing and the battery life was suffering even more than nowadays, I was selling iPhone 4/4S battery cases. At that time, no one knew about that technology of “power banks”. I also started to repair and fix hundreds of iPhones, starting from the 2G.

2013 - 2016 - University, and teaching at the same time.

I started a Bachelor in Computer Science and, in parallel, became a teaching mentor at my university, teaching IT and digital literacy to around 600 first-year students each year. My first research internship was in a CNRS robotics lab, building a guidance arm for a museum robot so that children could lead it by hand.

2016 - 2017 - Erasmus in Crete.

My first Erasmus. I studied computer engineering at the University of Crete, then stayed for a robotics research internship where I built SOCIUS, an emergency-response robot that follows people without GPS or wireless signal.

2017 - 2018 - Drones against landmines.

My second Erasmus, in the Netherlands, with a start-up building demining drones. I developed a stereovision obstacle-avoidance system and ended up coordinating the technical team. We won the Safe and Secure Society prize at the 2017 Accenture Innovation Awards, and I presented the technology to UN representatives in Basel. Then came my third Erasmus, as an AI engineer in an international laboratory at the Swiss border, doing computer vision for robots and satellite imagery.

2018 - 2019 - From research to industry.

I finished my Master’s degree while starting as a consultant at IBM. On the side, I built Spidy, a talking robotic spider, with a small team in London, and published my first research paper about it.

2019 - My first humanitarian mission.

I conducted a humanitarian mission in the refugee camps in Greece by collecting donations, which amounted to almost 3200€. I used the funds to construct a school and provide essential supplies. Additionally, I have carried out three other international humanitarian missions in 2020 and 2021.

2021 - The biggest one.

For my fourth humanitarian action, 406 people from more than 20 countries donated, raising €14,000 for refugees. Thank you to every single one of them.

2024 - My first mobile app

I published Navên Kurdî, a catalogue of 2,305 Kurdish first names with their meanings, built with Flutter and an AI-assisted data pipeline.

2025 - Now - Building with AI.

Since 2025, I spend my free time building products with AI coding agents: a Kurdistan atlas, an app library, a Kurdish vinyl archive, and lots of small tools that make everyday life easier, like a furniture comparison app, a personal fitness coach, a game library, a home control system, and a one-click launcher for my development projects. I also build countermeasures against cyberattacks: bot protection, automatic banning of attackers, and regular vulnerability scans.