Nikita Agafonov
Software Developer at Open Science Tools
Nottingham, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNikita Agafonov is a software developer with 12 years’ experience specializing in browser and graphics stacks, from GIF decompression and GLSL shaders to polishing UI details. Currently contributing to PsychoJS at Open Science Tools, he brings backend experience to scientific web apps and has enhanced components in the widely used PsychoPy project. He has built interactive front-ends and visualization tooling (three.js) at enterprise scale, designed complex UI architectures, and shipped WebGL graphics as a freelancer and game engine author. Comfortable across JS, WebGL, WASM and low-level graphics, he pairs hands-on shader work with pragmatic engineering for production web applications. A master’s in computer science and a habit of reimplementing engines from scratch hint at both deep technical curiosity and a readiness to tackle atypical technical challenges.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Computer Science, Master, Computer Science at Nizhniy Novgorod State Technical University named after R.Y. Alekseev (NSTU)
Russian, English
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python10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
psychopy/psychopy
Jun 2022 - Sep 2022
For running psychology and neuroscience experiments
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:4 commits, 5 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Nikita primarily contributed to the backend of the psychopy project by modifying components and adding new features. They focused on enhancing component functionalities, as seen in the modifications to text and slider components. The user also added features to the system such as precise value setters for sounds, and added new options to the stimuli elements by introducing new anchors.
neurosciencepythonexperiment-controlcognitive-scienceopenscience
lightest/psychojs
Jan 2022 - Apr 2024
PsychoJS is the online counterpart of the PsychoPy Python library
Contributions:131 pushes, 55 branches in 2 years 2 months
python-librarypythonpsychojspython3psychopy
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