👋 Hi, I’m Nikita. I’m a software engineer working at the intersection of data design, visualization, and creative tools. I use code to turn complex data and systems into fast, expressive, and understandable interfaces.

I started using code as a creative medium in 2010. Before moving into software engineering and data visualization, I worked as a research scientist with a PhD in physics and as a new media artist.

In 2014 founded Interacta, a team of scientists, designers and engineers building beautiful tools for working with data, which won World Data Visualization Prize in 2019.

2020 Moved to California to lead the data visualization team at a startup that later was acquired by F5.

2020 Co-authored Cosmograph — the fastest web-based tool and library for visualizing large network graphs and machine learning embeddings.

2022 Released Unovis - an open source library for data visualization that now has more than 200K weekly NPM downloads.

2023 Created Market Map - experimental visualization of the US stock market. Winner of the Information is Beautiful Awards and nominated for The Webby Awards.