Yann Cébron
Germany
Summary
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RockstarYann Cébron is a Developer Advocate at JetBrains with 15 years of experience building and championing the IntelliJ Platform, from core IDE features to plugins and build tooling. He blends system architecture and hands-on implementation—contributing to IntelliJ SDK docs and code samples, adding quick fixes to Java examples, and tightening KDoc and test automation for the intellij-platform-gradle-plugin. His work spans full-stack plugin development, Gradle build and release maintenance (including dependency and wrapper upgrades), and developer experience improvements that quietly reduce friction for other plugin authors. Based in Germany, he’s known for meticulous attention to documentation and tooling details that make large platforms easier to extend.
16 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
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spring
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Github Skills (24)
kotlin10
documentations10
intellij10
build-gradle-kts10
java10
javas10
automation10
sdk10
intellij-plugin10
automations10
intellij-platform10
gradlew10
documentation10
gradle10
testing9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
JetBrains/intellij-sdk-code-samples
Dec 2015 - Jan 2023
Mirror of the IntelliJ SDK Docs Code Samples
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:184 commits in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Yann primarily contributed to the IntelliJ SDK code samples, demonstrating skills in plugin development and UI component implementation. They focused on refactoring and cleaning up code within the project view pane, adding features such as a Gradle composite build, and fixing issues. The contributions also included refactoring simple language plugin components and adding missing annotations.
intellij-platformintellij-ideasdkkotlinintellij-sdk
JetBrains/intellij-sdk-docs
Dec 2014 - Jan 2023
IntelliJ SDK Platform Documentation
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:160 reviews, 2433 commits, 380 PRs in 8 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Yann contributed to the IntelliJ SDK Platform Documentation by cleaning up and modifying code samples. They implemented quick fixes and inspected code for comparison issues within the Java code examples. Furthermore, they improved the Simple Language Plugin, adding and modifying annotations, and cleaning up code within the project view pane. The user was involved in improving documentation.
intellij-platformplatform-sdksdkkotlinintellij-sdk
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