Nikita Rokotyan
Founding Engineer UI & Data Visualization
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolNikita Rokotyan is a founding engineer and data visualization specialist with 11 years of experience building high-impact visualization frameworks and products from research prototypes to production. He created Unovis, an open-source modular data-vis framework powering visualizations across F5 products and enjoying 60K+ weekly npm installs, and co-authored Cosmograph, a fast web tool for large network graphs. A PhD-trained researcher in atmospheric remote sensing and a former new media artist, he blends scientific rigor, design sensibility, and front-end engineering to turn complex data into elegant, usable interfaces. He founded Interacta, which won the 2019 World Data Visualization Prize, and co-founded CultivateMe, applying visualization to talent and career analytics. Based in Palo Alto, he contributes to developer UX and tooling (e.g., Unovis website/dev app improvements) while continuing to push open-source approaches to scalable visual analytics.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Atmospheric Remote Sensing Spectroscopy, PhD Atmospheric Remote Sensing Spectroscopy at Ural Federal University
Russian, English
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Github Skills (18)
data-visualizations10
website-development10
charts10
typescript10
data-visualisation10
typescript-types10
data-visualization10
typescripts10
react10
javascript9
svelte9
angular8
vue8
regression6
correlation6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
f5/unovis
Nov 2022 - Mar 2023
Modular data visualization framework for React, Angular, Svelte, Vue, and vanilla TypeScript or JavaScript
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:12 releases, 126 reviews, 186 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Nikita primarily contributed to the website section of the `f5/unovis` repository, focusing on UI improvements and enhancements. They fixed relative links in the gallery viewer, refined terminology, and updated documentation related to the bullet legend. The user also worked on implementing a new development app with hot refresh functionality. These changes indicate a focus on improving the user experience and developer tooling for the Unovis data visualization framework.
vanillachartsreactvanilla-typescriptjavascript
cosmograph-org/cosmos
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
GPU-accelerated force graph layout and rendering
Contributions:4 releases, 61 reviews, 30 commits in 9 months
webglgpuacceleratedlayoutsimulation
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