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 a the Swiss border. These experiences have fostered a love for travel and cultural exploration, leading me to move around, predominantly in the U.K.

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 Macintosh Power 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 C.S. 1.6. Counter-Strike, 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 and 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 - 2011 - Primary school, my first business.

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

2001 - 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 - 2019 - A lot happened. TLTW/TLTR.

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.

2024 - My first mobile app

On-going :)