About me
Marwan Summakieh
Documenting the shift from product engineering into game development by studying core fundamentals and translating past delivery experience into new engines.
My background
Marwan is a software engineer and Human-Centered AI graduate student based in Copenhagen. His work focuses on front-end architecture, user journey analysis, and automation that removes friction for product teams.
Recent roles include delivering UI improvements for Second Sun's shade analysis platform, building productivity tooling for Joker IT teams, and shipping a tailoring order tracking suite as a freelancer. He is now learning the fundamentals of game development with an emphasis on Unreal Engine while exploring Unity, carrying forward the same evidence-based approach that guided past delivery.
Where I live
Copenhagen, Denmark
What I'm working on
Pursuing a master's in human-centered AI with research aimed at explainable, accessible product experiences.
How I work
Systems & Loop Design
Designing player-centric loops that balance clarity, challenge, and progression for small team execution.
Narrative & Worldbuilding
Translating tabletop storytelling skills into interactive narrative structures and branching dialogue.
Technical Tooling
Creating pipelines that keep iteration fast, reproducible, and accessible to collaborators.
Work history
Elevated the UI of a golf-course shade analysis platform by restructuring journeys and aligning standards.
- Designed interface components that aligned the product with user requirements and increased clarity.
- Analysed the existing front-end implementation and produced recommendations for usability improvements.
- Created implementation guidelines so the engineering team could apply changes consistently across the product.
Implemented productivity tooling that reduced manual effort for document management and cloud provisioning.
- Developed a Microsoft Outlook add-in that enabled direct SharePoint uploads without leaving the mail client.
- Implemented secure authentication flows and error handling to safeguard file transfers and metadata.
- Produced user documentation and training assets to accelerate onboarding.
Delivered an automated provisioning tool that improved Azure deployment consistency and speed.
- Designed a provisioning architecture that standardised resource group creation and policy management.
- Built an operational dashboard for tracking resource allocation and detecting configuration issues.
- Automated common onboarding tasks and established logging to monitor reliability.
Developed web and mobile applications for a tailoring business to improve customer visibility and internal tracking.
- Launched a Next.js marketing site and an order-tracking application covering drop-off through pick-up.
- Integrated AWS-hosted services via Vercel to handle traffic and deployment workflows.
- Delivered UI prototypes in Figma and Relume to align stakeholders before implementation.