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Max Gerlach

Systems engineering student · student pilot · Netherlands
mgerlach0168@gmail.com · github.com/MaxG3rlach

summary

Systems engineering student who ships. I run a one-person game studio, published TikTok effects used by 2M people, and build for the web — always in public on GitHub. Training as a student pilot alongside my studies. Seeking a 2026 systems engineering internship.

experience & projects

Founder — Probably Labs (Roblox studio)

2024 — present

One-person studio: Luau scripting, game design, playtesting with real players.

  • Own the full lifecycle: requirements, build, test, iterate.
  • Treat player reports as verification input for the next cycle.

Effect creator — TikTok Effect House

past project
  • Filters reached 2M unique users and 80M views.
  • Iterated on retention using usage analytics; optimised for mid-range phones.

Web projects

ongoing
  • Hand-built sites in semantic HTML, CSS and vanilla JS — no build step.
  • Portfolio deploys straight from GitHub to a custom domain with HTTPS.

other

Student pilot

in training

Procedure discipline, checklist culture, brief–execute–debrief loop. I apply the same loop to engineering releases.

skills