Gökhan Çalışkan

Gökhan Çalışkan

About

I build games, on the web and in Unity.

I'm Gökhan, a frontend developer based in Tekirdağ, Türkiye. For 4+ years I've shipped production work with React, Next.js and Nuxt, and most of it has been inside games: real-time multiplayer clients, instant browser games, Telegram mini-apps and the dashboards behind them.

I'm comfortable past the frontend too (NestJS APIs, PostgreSQL, Redis, WebSockets), and I own the Cloudflare infrastructure for the products I work on.

Alongside that I run Hotan Game, my own four-person studio. There I'm building Sink Protocol, a tactical naval deckbuilder, where the game design and every screen of the Figma UI are mine as well as the code. My direction is clear: full-time game development.

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Experience

  1. Founder & Project Manager · Hotan Game

    Jun 2026 – Present
    • Founded the studio and lead a four-person team across our own games and client work.
    • Design and develop Sink Protocol with one teammate: game design, the entire Figma UI and the Unity/C# implementation.
    • Deliver client software through the studio: Plug Digital's products Runmeal (runmeal.co.uk) and PlugOffice (plugdigital.co.uk), and PlayNpro, a gaming platform monorepo (NestJS, RabbitMQ, Next.js, PostgreSQL).
    • Manage the studio's developer and cloud accounts end to end: Apple Developer and App Store Connect, Google Play Console, Google Cloud and Cloudflare, including releases, certificates, billing and access.

  2. Frontend Developer · Undisclosed (NDA)

    Oct 2025 – Present
    • Build and maintain a large catalogue of real-time browser games with React, TypeScript and Vite on a shared game runtime.
    • Implement WebSocket game clients, provably-fair flows and responsive layouts that run embedded on desktop and mobile.
    • Own the company's Cloudflare setup: DNS, deployments, caching and security.

  3. Freelance Web Developer · Self-employed

    Dec 2023 – Jun 2026
    • Started building Plug Digital's products in 2025 (work that now continues through Hotan Game). Runmeal: multi-tenant food-ordering platform with Next.js storefronts, NestJS API, PostGIS, payments, POS integration.
    • PlugOffice: organization-scoped CRM with its own licensing service. Also plugdigital.co.uk on Next.js + Payload CMS, fully on Cloudflare.

  4. Software Developer · Clicker Games

    Nov 2024 – Aug 2025
    • Built Telegram mini-app games, landing pages and admin panels with Nuxt 3 and Vue.
    • Developed NestJS microservices and Telegram bots; integrated TON wallets, vesting and airdrop flows.

Skills

Frontend

TypeScriptReactNext.jsVueNuxtViteTailwind CSSThree.jsFramer Motion

Game development

UnityC#HLSL / ShaderLabGame & UI designFigmaReal-time WebSocket clients

Backend

Node.jsNestJSGraphQLPrismaTypeORMPostgreSQLRedisRabbitMQSocket.IO

Infrastructure & platforms

Cloudflare Workers / PagesR2 & D1Google CloudApple Developer / App Store ConnectGoogle Play ConsoleDockerGitHub ActionsTurborepo

Education

B.Sc. Management Information Systems

Anadolu University

2022 – 2026

Civil Engineering, three years of coursework

Namık Kemal University. Left in the final year to work in software full time.

2021 – 2024