Nikita Denisov
Senior Designer (Design System) at VK
Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Summary
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Top SchoolNikita Denisov is a senior design system specialist with eight years of cross-disciplinary experience building product interfaces and bridging design with engineering. Currently driving VKUI — VK’s core design system for web and mobile — he maintains open-source React components, leads cross-platform tokens, and ships releases while syncing code with Figma. A pragmatic minimalist and rationalist, he pairs a prolific freelance background (70+ projects) with hands-on coding—authoring Figma plugins like Swap Variables used by thousands—to automate workflows and tighten designer-developer handoffs. He holds computer science and innovation management degrees from Polytech and has a track record of onboarding teams, writing practical guides, and turning legacy UI into scalable system components.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Innovation Management, Master's degree, Innovation Management at Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University
Github Skills (24)
javascript10
typescript10
postcss10
mobile-web10
uikit10
shieldsio9
ios9
android9
svg9
react9
plugin8
figma8
markdown7
nodejs7
serverless7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
qurle/type
Sep 2024 - May 2026
Markdown-friendly zen editor
Contributions:10 PRs, 257 pushes, 19 branches in 1 year 8 months
markdown
qurle/plugin-starter
Dec 2022 - Apr 2026
Contributions:1 PR, 8 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 4 months
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