Hovhannes Muradyan

Santa Cruz, California, USA

hovhannesmurad5191@gmail.com linkedin.com/in/hovhannes-muradyan-ba516b228 hovhannes.app

Summary

Computer Science student at UC Santa Cruz focused on full-stack software engineering and scalable web applications. Experienced with Next.js, React, Supabase, SQL, TailwindCSS, and TypeScript, with additional Unity/C# game development experience.

Interested in new graduate software engineering roles, especially full-stack product engineering and interactive systems.

Experience

Freelance Full-Stack Engineer Jan 2025 – Present Confidential Client Remote

Architecting and developing a multilingual, location-based community-commerce platform combining social feeds, user profiles, forums, direct messaging, local business discovery, advertising, marketplace, job listings, and media-rich content.

Built a digital gifting and redemption system that allows users to purchase products or meals from local businesses, send personalized gifts, and redeem them using scannable barcodes.

Serving as the sole engineer across frontend development, backend workflows, PostgreSQL database architecture, authentication, media storage, access control, localization, and production deployment using Next.js, TypeScript, Supabase, and TailwindCSS.

Implemented Incremental Static Regeneration and optimized data-fetching patterns to improve performance and scalability across content-heavy, location-specific pages.

Full Stack Engineer Aug 2024 – Jan 2025 Here For You Remote

Developed a community-driven platform connecting users with support resources and community networks.

Built and maintained full-stack features using Next.js, Supabase, and TailwindCSS.

Collaborated on responsive UI, authentication flows, backend data integration, and user-facing platform improvements.

Full Stack Engineer, Team Lead Oct 2024 CalHacks 2024, UC Berkeley Hackathon Berkeley, CA

Led development of StudyBuddy, a platform designed to connect like-minded students in real time.

Integrated Supabase with Agora to support real-time communication and data synchronization.

Implemented a matching system using OpenAI’s model and Supabase real-time data.

Developed chat functionality and a synchronized listen-along music experience.

Individual/Group Tutor Jan 2024 – Mar 2024 Baskin Engineering, UC Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, CA

Tutored students in a university-level Game Design course, covering programming concepts and project development.

Helped lead discussion sections, explain course concepts, review student projects, and organize online office hours.

Projects

pet75 — UCSC Capstone Next.js, TypeScript, Supabase, Express, Docker

Built a gamified coding-practice platform combining LeetCode-style problems with evolving virtual pets, rewards, inventory, and progression systems.

Developed an Express REST API and isolated Docker environments to execute JavaScript and Python submissions and return detailed test-case feedback.

Implemented GitHub OAuth, Supabase Realtime pet-state synchronization, scheduled Edge Functions, inventory and evolution systems, and animated 3D pet models.

Reap & Sow Unity, C#

Developed gameplay and visual systems for a 2D roguelite game built in Unity over two academic quarters.

Implemented player movement, interaction systems, parallax backgrounds, and animated environmental components.

Melo Next.js, Spotify API

Built a music discovery platform that helps users find new songs based on listening habits using the Spotify API.

Developed personalized recommendation features and responsive UI components in Next.js.

Education

University of California, Santa Cruz Expected 2026 Bachelor of Science in Computer Science Santa Cruz, CA Relevant Coursework: Data Structures & Algorithms, Computer Architecture, Computer Systems & C Programming, Computer Systems & Assembly, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning Basics, Database Systems, Principles of Computer System Design, Algorithm Analysis, Applied Discrete Mathematics

Skills

Languages: TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Java, C, C++, C#, SQL, Rust, Go Front-End: React, Next.js, TailwindCSS, Chakra UI, HTML5, CSS3 Back-End & Databases: Supabase, Node.js, Express.js, Flask, REST APIs, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MongoDB Tools: Git, GitHub, Docker, Vercel, Unity, Blender, Linux, Figma