Taras Novak
Founder Principal Engineer at Random Fractals, Inc.
Lake Zurich, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolTaras Novak is a founder and principal engineer with over two decades of experience designing high-performance, data-driven web and visualization applications for startups and enterprises. He is polyglot across front-end (TypeScript, Vue/Angular, d3, WebGL/SVG) and back-end stacks (C#/ASP.NET, Java/Spring, Python, Node.js) and has delivered patented and FDA-adjacent products—from 24 hr ECG visualizations to geo-spatial drone-strike maps and synchronized GPS video players. Taras blends hands-on engineering with solution architecture and UX design, often leading distributed Agile teams to ship complex single-page apps, 3D modeling, and BI dashboards. He founded Random Fractals to productize niche visualization and analytics solutions and previously drove real-time trading dashboards and RIA platforms at major financial and marketing firms. Notably, his work spans both creative consumer projects (Barbie Dreams career maps) and mission-critical analytics (Holter device visualizations), reflecting a rare mix of technical rigor and playful curiosity. Based in Lake Zurich, IL, he brings entrepreneurial leadership plus deep expertise in geo-data, big data modeling, and responsive web performance tuning.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Applied Mathematics, Applied Mathematics at Chernivtsi University, UkraineBachelor of Science Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Chicago
English, Russian, Ukrainian
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Github Skills (200)
gist10
testing10
datasets10
apache-arrow10
visual-studio10
tabular10
data-files10
purescript10
vscode-plugin10
markup-language10
api10
sqltools10
topojson10
json10
in-memory10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
RandomFractals/paradise-campfire-map
Mar 2019 - Mar 2019
omniSci visualization of Paradise, California 2018 campfire
Contributions:1 release, 163 commits, 150 pushes in 18 days
campfireparadisedata-visualizationomniscivisualization
RandomFractals/CyberDash
Dec 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:7 releases, 310 commits, 297 pushes in 1 month
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