Frontend Developer
Maksym Ostapchuk
I build fast, interactive interfaces that feel alive.
About
I’m a frontend developer who likes making interfaces that don’t just work — they respond. Most of my projects start as an idea I want to see move: a layout, an animation, a small interaction that makes a page feel alive. I work mainly with React, Next.js and TypeScript, and I’ve spent a lot of time in GSAP and Three.js pushing what a browser can actually do. Before that, I was the second developer on a commercial WordPress site for a flight academy — real deadlines, real users. I’ve already earned my Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, and right now I’m focusing on building my own side projects.
- React / Next.js / TypeScript
- GSAP & Three.js animation
- WordPress · commercial project
- CS degree, 2022–2026
Stack
What I build with.
Frontend
The everyday tools — components, types, and the CSS that holds it together.
Animation & 3D
Where most of my time goes — motion that has to stay smooth at 60fps.
CMS & Backend
The commercial half — a real site, real integrations, real users.
Tools
Version control, design hand-off, and the editor I live in.
Experience
How I got here.
2022
Enrolled in Computer Science
Started a Computer Science degree — the plan was simple: learn how software actually works, then go build things with it.
2024
First Lines of Frontend
Picked up the basics — HTML, CSS, JavaScript — then jumped into React soon after. What began as coursework turned into an obsession with making interfaces feel right.
2024–2025
Two Coursework Projects, Defended
Built and defended two academic projects as real frontend applications, not just theory — proof the skills held up under review.
Jan – Apr 2026
WordPress Developer, Flight Academy (usfa-ua)
First commercial project, as second developer on a two-person build: pages, reusable blocks, OAuth and Google Classroom integrations, mobile adaptation and bug fixing — shipped for real users on a real deadline.
2026Always learning
Still Climbing
Deep in Next.js, TypeScript and GSAP now, with no plan to stop learning anytime soon. This site — and everything moving on it — is the latest proof.
Projects05
Things I’ve built, and why they exist.
Every one of these is live. The address in each frame is the real one — open any of them and you land on the thing I actually shipped.
Live
Chess School
A premium-feeling booking site for a chess school — built to actually feel like chess.
A polished booking experience with chess.js powering a fully interactive board, where visitors solve three real puzzles before they even sign up. Every transition is tuned to feel expensive — smooth, considered, unhurried.
Live
EntropyA Study in Order and Decay
A scroll-driven descent from geometric perfection into chaos.
An experimental 3D piece — an icosahedron that deforms and shatters as you scroll, driven by simplex-noise and rendered with React Three Fiber, choreographed alongside GSAP-mapped SVG paths. Built to stay smooth: GPU-conditional rendering, deformations that pause off-screen.
Live
DevScope
Compare any two GitHub profiles, side by side, in seconds.
A fast GitHub analyzer — debounced search, language-distribution breakdowns, head-to-head comparison charts. Built to show real product engineering: a live REST API, caching, strict typing, tests, and a command palette for power users.
Diploma project
Digital Footprint Simulator
A graph visualization of your digital footprint — with a bit of jelly physics.
My degree thesis: an interactive graph visualizing a person's digital footprint, with soft jelly-like physics driving how the nodes move and settle.
Live
Virtual GuitarReact
A meditative, playable guitar — right in the browser.
An atmospheric app that turns the browser into a calm, playable instrument: a real chord-playing fretboard, built-in beginner theory tips, and an ambient interface for quiet practice as much as discovery.
Education & Certificates
The paper trail.
The formal half of the story: four years of computer science for the fundamentals, and a security course I signed up for on my own time.
Bachelor's Degree · 2022 — 2026
Computer Science
Central Ukrainian State University named after Volodymyr Vynnychenko
Thesis: an interactive graph visualisation of a personal digital footprint — built as a real frontend application, not a write-up.
Cisco Networking Academy
Ethical Hacker
Certificate
Recon, scanning and vulnerability assessment — enough of the offensive side to write safer code on the defensive one.
Real Users, Real Deadline
Flight Academy
One client, one deadline, one site still in service. I flew this one as second developer on a two-person build — here is the flight plan: what the academy needed, which half of it was mine, and where it landed.
WPT 01BRIEF
The Brief
A flight academy needed a professional, modern corporate site their own team could actually maintain after launch — not just a one-off template.
WPT 02BUILD
The Build
I joined as the second developer, and my half was hands-on: building out pages, hand-coding reusable content blocks the academy's own team could keep using, and wiring up the integrations — OAuth sign-in, Google Classroom so students reach course material straight from the site, and a live Google Photos gallery. Then the work that decides whether a site survives contact with real users: mobile adaptation across the pages, a steady run of bug fixes, and the legwork on plugins — finding what could be bought instead of built, and checking it would not drag the site down.
WPT 03RESULT
The Result
A live, working commercial site shipped on schedule, currently serving real students and staff.
- Operator
- Ukrainian State Flight Academy
- Seat
- Second developer, team of two
- Dep — Arr
- Jan 2026 — Apr 2026
- Status
- Shipped · still flying
DESTUSFA
Visit usfa.edu.uaContact
Let’s build something worth scrolling for.
Open to frontend roles — remote or on-site. The fastest way to reach me is the first line below.