Denys Nykyforov
Staff Software Engineer at Lyft
Kharkiv, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine
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Top SchoolDenys Nykyforov is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack and mobile systems, currently driving engineering work at Lyft from Kharkiv, Ukraine. He progressed from Android development to senior and staff roles at leading tech companies like Grab and Lyft, blending product-focused engineering with system-level thinking from his degree in system programming. Denys is an active open-source contributor—his enhancements to Raycast extensions include Ukrainian language support and an AI-powered git assistant that streamlines commit/PR writing, showing a knack for developer tooling and UX. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who translates complex requirements into polished, user-facing features while mentoring teams on scalable practices.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute"
Ukrainian, English
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Github Skills (18)
git10
javascript10
typescript10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
android-adb9
api9
adb9
adbd9
ui-design8
nodejs8
apidoc7
android-jetpack6
android-jetpack-compose6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
raycast/extensions
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
Everything you need to extend Raycast.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 1 commit, 7 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Denys made significant contributions to the `raycast/extensions` repository, primarily focusing on the development and enhancement of Raycast extensions. Their work included adding Ukrainian language support to the Deepcast extension, implementing a new AI-powered git assistant to generate commit messages and PR descriptions, and integrating a new Lucky Surf extension. They also updated existing extensions, including those related to Google Translate and ADB tools, adding new features, and refining UI/UX aspects.
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Popalay/RxRealm
Feb 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:1 release, 21 commits, 2 PRs in 4 months
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