👋 Hi, I’m Nikita. I’m a software engineer and former physicist building research tools, interactive data systems, and visualization libraries. I work across algorithms, full-stack engineering, and interface design to help people explore complex data.

I started using code as a creative medium in 2010. My background spans physics research, new media art, and software engineering, with a PhD in physics and more than a decade spent building tools for working with data.

I’m the creator and lead maintainer of cosmos.gl, a GPU-powered graph simulation and visualization engine. I designed and built its original simulation and rendering algorithms, enabling interactive exploration of graphs with up to a million nodes.

I co-founded Cosmograph, a platform for exploring network graphs and machine learning embeddings. I lead its engineering and work across the product, from visualization and data processing to backend systems, collaboration, and AI-assisted analysis.

I also created Unovis, an open-source visualization library for React, Angular, Vue, and Svelte. It gives developers composable building blocks for custom charts, maps, and networks.

As a founding engineer at Exaforce, I lead frontend architecture and UI development for AI-powered cybersecurity tools. Previously, I led frontend engineering and data visualization at Volterra, which was acquired by F5.

In 2014, I founded Interacta, a studio bringing together scientists, designers, and engineers to build research and data exploration tools. Our work included The Seamless Web, an interactive tool for exploring roughly four million US legal cases, and received the World Data Visualization Prize Grand Prize in 2019.

Alongside these projects, I create experimental visualizations such as Market Map, my exploration of the US stock market, which won an Information is Beautiful Award and received a Webby nomination.