Tarek 谈互
Co-Founder at waiyü
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolTarek 谈互 is a Berlin-based co-founder and independent game developer with a decade of experience creating indie games since 2013 and a formal background in mathematics from Technische Universität Berlin. He blends practical game design and engineering with a deep interest in machine learning, which fueled his appreciation for mathematical rigor and informs his approach to product and tooling. At waiyü he’s building next-generation language learning tools informed by his own journey learning Chinese, combining educational UX with data-driven models. Equally comfortable prototyping gameplay systems and exploring ML-driven features, he brings entrepreneurial grit, interdisciplinary curiosity, and a hands-on maker’s mindset to small teams and solo projects.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics at Technische Universität Berlin
Github Skills (200)
gif-animation10
animated10
voice-conversion10
text-to-speech10
flame10
speech10
animation10
whisper10
keyboard10
aseprite10
draw10
macos-sierra10
karabiner10
speech-synthesis10
speech-to-text10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
undefdev/barycuda
May 2020 - Feb 2024
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
mechanism-learning-research/two-player-auctions
Oct 2023 - Jul 2024
JAX/Haiku implementation of "Auction Learning as a Two-Player Game"
Contributions:9 PRs, 27 pushes, 13 branches in 9 months
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