Curriculum Vitae

Oleksandr Honchar

Front-End Developer · Software Engineering Student

Profile

Front-End Developer based in Sankt Pölten, currently on Erasmus+ at FH St. Pölten. Shipped React / TypeScript / Next.js work across commercial sites, an HR platform, and a chess installation exhibited at Lucid Dreams 2026 (~120 visitors over 2 days). Expanding into full-stack — Node/Express in active development. Open to Werkstudent / Junior FE — Vienna or remote.

Core Projects

Subutai — Kinetic Chess

EPS Project

Technical Lead · St. Pölten, Austria

Feb 2026 — Present

Live

Selected exhibitor at Lucid Dreams 2026 · Projekt 027 — FH St. Pölten's annual interactive media showcase where invited student teams present their work to a public audience.

  • Led technical implementation for a 5-person international team — concept co-created with Viktor Schetinger, ~5–6 weeks to ship.
  • Built move validator on rotating coordinates — castling and en-passant on a pivoted board — plus replay system that reconstructs state after mid-game rotations.
  • Exhibition result: ~120 visitors over 2 days, ~50 played the installation live (5–7 min average sessions).

mIGHT — Learning Management System

LMS

Lead Developer

Mar 2025 — Jun 2025

Live
  • Engineered a comprehensive LMS from scratch with role-based access for Admin, Teacher, and Student.
  • Developed a dynamic grade journal with auto-save and a dark-themed adaptive calendar.
  • Built animated transitions and responsive design using Next.js and ShadCN UI for a premium UX.

ShowPlus — Rental Service Platform

Web Developer · Commercial · WordPress

Jan 2025 — Mar 2025

Live

Rental platform for a Ukrainian inflatable mascot manufacturer. WordPress + customised Elementor, custom contact form in vanilla JS (free plugins blocked email delivery), mobile-first, 2-language ready. ~2 weeks of direct client iteration — concept → ship.

Experience

Interim Front-End Developer — NiftyHR

May 2025 — Jul 2025 · Cherkasy, Ukraine

  • Built registration flow (4 screens) end-to-end — input validation, API integration, error states.
  • ~12 bug fixes shipped against an unfamiliar codebase during the 2-month developer handover.
  • Live URL under NDA — private commercial HR platform.

Front-End Developer Intern · Internship II — eKreative

Jan 2025 — Feb 2025 · Cherkasy, Ukraine

  • Developed a real-time traffic monitoring application for Cherkasy using OpenStreetMap API and admin moderation logic.
  • Invited back for a second term based on high performance and rapid skill acquisition.
  • Collaborated in an Agile environment, improving code maintainability and team velocity.

Front-End Developer Intern · Internship I — eKreative

Jan 2024 — Feb 2024 · Cherkasy, Ukraine

  • Translated complex Figma mockups into pixel-perfect React components.
  • Built the first production React site with data loading from JSON — establishing component architecture patterns.