CURRICULUM VITAE
Karel Kutchan
Senior Frontend Engineer
Prague-based Senior Frontend Engineer with more than ten years in web development, currently leading frontend work at BlueGhost.
Prague, Czech Republickarel@codeguy.czLinkedInGitHubPROFILE
Senior frontend engineering with increasing product and team ownership.
10+ years
More than ten years building and improving web products.
Lead role
Currently Lead Frontend Engineer at BlueGhost.
Product systems
React and TypeScript product systems, component foundations, accessibility and delivery quality.
Prague
Based in Prague, Czech Republic.
CORE SKILLS
Tools and practices used in delivery.
Frontend engineering
React · TypeScript · Next.js · JavaScript
State and data
MobX · Redux · application state
Validation and forms
Accessible form behavior · clear validation patterns
CSS and UI systems
HTML · CSS · Sass · CSS Modules · Storybook
CMS and platform integration
Kentico · Kontent.ai · WordPress
Quality and tooling
Playwright · Vitest / Jest · Git · Vite · Webpack
Accessibility and localization
React Aria · accessible interaction · localized interfaces
EXPERIENCE
Experience
Selected frontend roles in reverse chronological order.
Present
Lead Frontend EngineerBlueGhost
Current roleLeading frontend architecture, delivery practices and technical decisions across product teams.
Frontend EngineerKontent.ai
Accessibility-focused React contract completed in February 2025.
Lead Frontend EngineerTLDR;IT s.r.o.
Led frontend delivery for web and mobile applications in a time-framed role.
Frontend DevelopereMan a.s.
Delivered and modernized customer-facing interfaces for major energy-sector clients.
Frontend DeveloperLMC
Built bespoke, responsive web solutions for corporate clients.
Frontend DeveloperAmp X
Developed the frontend of a distributed-energy product.
Frontend DeveloperSkype.com
Contributed to the accessible and responsive Skype.com web platform.
Frontend CoderFoxconn DRC s.r.o.
Developed responsive interfaces and a BEM-based component foundation.
SELECTED PROJECTS
Representative work across products, platforms and teams.
BlueGhost
Frontend leadership
Leading frontend architecture, delivery practices and technical decisions across product teams.
Kontent.ai
Accessibility refactoring
Improving accessibility and refactoring an established React product with React Aria and custom solutions.
eMan a.s.
Energy customer portals
Developing and modernizing interfaces for energy-sector customer products.
Skype.com
Skype.com web platform
Contributing to an accessible, responsive platform serving more than 400,000 daily users in over 30 countries.
EDUCATION & LANGUAGES
Education
COPTH
Electrical engineering, telecommunications and computer technologies
Languages
- CzechNative
- EnglishFluent
- SwedishBeginner
English · React profile
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