Mikola Lysenko
Senior Software Engineer at Socket
Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolMikola Lysenko is a Senior Software Engineer with 16 years of experience specializing in WebGL, data visualization, and large-scale interactive systems. He has held leadership and research roles from Chief Scientist at Codemao to senior engineering at Socket, and co-founded bits.coop, blending product intuition with deep technical craft. A prolific open-source contributor, Mikola has shaped foundational graphics tooling—contributing to widely used projects like regl, headless-gl and luma.gl and authoring the shader-school workshopper for GLSL education. His background spans academic research and industry consulting (Plotly, 3D Systems), giving him a rare combination of practical production engineering and graphics research expertise. Based in Michigan, he maintains an active public presence through his blog and extensive GitHub work, often solving low-level shader and cross-environment graphics challenges that most engineers avoid.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at Michigan Technological UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Github Skills (31)
webgl10
javascript10
shader10
testing10
glsl10
graphics-programming10
nodejs10
scripting9
geometry9
data-visualizations9
algorithm9
math9
data-visualisation9
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
stackgl/headless-gl
Jan 2013 - Sep 2016
🎃 Windowless WebGL for node.js
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:13 releases, 443 commits, 29 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Mikola primarily contributed to the development of the `headless-gl` library, a windowless WebGL implementation for Node.js. Their work included initial setup, setting up an AGL context for OS X, and creating the core `index.js` file. They also added fundamental methods for building WebGL applications using node.js as well as basic utilities for enabling drawing with the library.
webglnode-jsjavascriptnodejsgraphics
regl-project/regl
Feb 2016 - Jul 2021
👑 Functional WebGL
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1749 commits, 264 PRs, 473 pushes in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Mikola primarily focused on implementing and modifying WebGL-based rendering code. They made numerous changes to the `lib/compile.js` file, which suggests they are involved in the core of the rendering engine. The commits involved changes in the shader configuration.
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