I'm Hlib Ishchenko, a Computer Science student, builder of strange ideas, and a certified overthinker™ when it comes to UX, bugs, and creative solutions.

"I don't just build software — I design systems that think, adapt, and sometimes misbehave (for testing purposes)."

I am currently a solo developer & publisher of a deep factory automation simulator. This isn't just a game; it's a massive technical experiment in web-based game dev.

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A multi-disciplinary CS student who thinks like a product strategist, codes like a frontender, debugs like a QA lead, and dreams like a mad scientist. I specialize in turning abstract ideas into interactive systems, while accidentally discovering edge cases most devs never meet.

I don't chase frameworks — I chase understanding. I don't just ship — I test, break, rebuild, polish, and then question the entire premise again.

• Frontend: React, Vite, JS, HTML/CSS, rapid prototyping
• Desktop: Electron — packaging web apps into real desktop applications
• Backend: familiar with Go, experienced with Python, MongoDB, a bit of SQL
• AI & CV: custom neural nets in Python, basic computer vision stuff
• Graph / Data Viz: Dagre, ReactFlow, Recharts — complex node graphs, recipe trees, live charts
• Animation & UI: Framer Motion, react-pageflip — cinematic transitions, book-flip interfaces
• i18n: i18next — full multi-language support across 6 languages
• Tools: Git, GitHub, draw.io, Final Cut Pro, Photoshop, Premiere, Word (unfortunately)
• Game Dev / Modding: created complex Lua + Python addons like StormworksConnect
• Deploy: Cloudflare Pages — custom game websites from scratch
• AI Tooling: generative art, AI voice acting, and prompt engineering at a level that makes LLMs nervous 🤖

• I prototype ideas obsessively, whether it's a web tool, data visualizer, or a ridiculous game mechanic
• I test products like I'm preparing them for the International Space Station
• I explore where software meets human behavior — especially UI/UX edge cases
• I question defaults. Always.
• I build projects that are never small and never "just CRUD"
• ... aaand I love breaking things more than coding them sometimes. Sorry not sorry 😅

An industrial colony management game set in the year 2187. You are the Director of an off-world industrial colony, building production chains from Stone Age tools all the way to hyperdrive engines — while uncovering a corporate conspiracy along the way.

This is a solo indie game project I'm developing from zero — and it's probably the most complex thing I've ever built:

• ⚛️ React + Electron — runs as a real desktop game, not just a website
• 🔗 Full crafting & recipe system with dependency graph visualization (Dagre, ReactFlow)
• 🔬 Multi-tier research tree — dozens of technologies with unlock chains
• 🏭 50+ buildings, hundreds of resources, complex production balancing
• 🗺️ Lore-rich narrative — opening cinematic, tutorial with voiced NPCs, hidden Registry system, story ending
• 🏆 Achievement system with 5 rarity tiers, award organizations, and secret unlocks
• 💾 Full save/load system with UUID-based slots
• 📊 Statistics, Resource Monitor, Inventory, Almanac — proper game UIs
• 🌍 Localized into 8 languages: English, Ukrainian, Russian, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Simplified Chinese
• 🎵 Original soundtrack with an in-game Jukebox
• 🎙️ AI-generated voice acting — trained, prompted, and directed entirely by me
• 🖼️ AI-generated game art — all visual assets crafted with AI tools + manual polish
• 🎬 Self-produced trailers — shot, edited, and published (Final Cut Pro)
• 🌐 Custom game website deployed on Cloudflare Pages
• 🚂 Steam publishing pipeline — store page, descriptions, screenshots, marketing posts

⭐ If this sounds interesting — any support, wishlist, or star means the world to a solo dev.

• 🔬 Published 2 research papers in international peer-reviewed journals:
  • CSIT Journal — English
  • VOTTP Journal — Ukrainian
• 🛠️ 2 software author certificates
• 📹 YouTube channel — 2k+ subs mostly from 10 nerdy videos about neural nets
• 🌌 Repositories with organic attention — one has 20+ ⭐
• 🎮 Shipped a Stormworks plugin bridging real hardware inputs into a game world, fusing Python, Lua, and a bit of madness
• 🤖 Mastered AI-assisted development: generative art pipelines, AI voice direction, and prompt engineering at an embarrassingly high level

"Programming is not typing code. It's encoding thought into structured abstraction that survives reality."

Not a "job". A mission:

• Help envision, design, and validate products
• Test assumptions before they become bugs
• Work with people who love quality, creativity, and user empathy
• Possibly wear many hats, and occasionally question the shape of the hat itself 🎩

• CS student, 4th year
• Strong frontend + solid backend instincts
• Building a solo indie game with a full production pipeline
• 2 international papers, 2 software certificates
• 8-language localization, Electron desktop packaging, graph-based UIs
• AI art + AI voice + trailer editing — full creative stack
• Always testing, thinking, breaking, rebuilding
• Love weird bugs, hate repetitive UIs
• Can explain async rendering to a cat
• Want to help build something clever, useful, and non-boring

"I don't always push to main — but when I do, it's tested, validated, and probably has a hidden easter egg."

☕ Not a rockstar developer, but might debug one.