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About me.

I started out building developer tools. Today, I work with teams building AI products at JetMinds.

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Now

JetMinds

I co-lead the Innovation Hub at JetBrains.

I work with product teams on AI product strategy: what to test, how to interpret the evidence, and what to do next.

We’re an AI-native team ourselves. I build the infrastructure we use every day: shared context, AI tools, and workflows for product reviews and decisions.

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The path here

JetBrains Academy

I grew JetBrains Academy from a small EduTools plugin project into a department focused on programming education. Since January 2026, I’ve continued as a strategy advisor.

JetBrains Academy

Developer tools & machine learning

My background is in microelectronics and software engineering. At JetBrains, I worked on PyCharm, EduTools, TechLab, and DataSpell. I also taught Python and machine learning and supervised student projects at the Computer Science Center and Academic University.

Experiments

Left to my own devices, I usually end up building something. A maze solver for a museum, an R plugin for IntelliJ, a robot that draws with a felt-tip pen.

Earlier experiments
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Off the screen

Mountains

I climb and go mountaineering. I co-founded the Polytekhnik Mountaineering Club in 2006 and helped it grow to around 2,000 members. From 2008 to 2022, I served on its board and coached climbers.

Tents at a mountain camp beneath the snowy peaks of Karakaya
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