Abduqodiri Qurbonzoda
Member Of Technical Staff at Speechify
Paphos Municipality, Cyprus
Summary
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Top SchoolAbduqodiri Qurbonzoda is a seasoned backend engineer with 11 years of experience, currently a Member of Technical Staff at Speechify after six years on the Kotlin Libraries team at JetBrains. He has deep expertise in language runtime and standard library work—contributing notable improvements to Kotlin/Native, Kotlin stdlib Char/String behavior, and immutable collection implementations used by many JVM/Native projects. Beyond feature development he’s strengthened test automation and iterator correctness, and guided interns as a recurring Google Summer of Code mentor, demonstrating a knack for developer tooling and mentorship. Based in Paphos, Cyprus, he pairs an Applied Mathematics degree from ITMO with practical software craftsmanship across platforms (JVM, JS, Native). Colleagues know him for making subtle cross-platform character and locale behaviors consistent—work that quietly improves developer ergonomics across the Kotlin ecosystem.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate, Software Development, Graduate, Software Development at Computer Science CenterBachelor's degree, Applied Mathematics and Informatics, Bachelor's degree, Applied Mathematics and Informatics at ITMO University
Github Skills (16)
text-manipulation10
kotlin10
hashtable10
data-structures10
collections10
strings10
character-encoding10
jvm10
data-structure10
unicode10
testing10
algorithms9
programming-language9
compiler-compiler8
compiler8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Kotlin/kotlinx.collections.immutable
Jan 2019 - Jan 2022
Immutable persistent collections for Kotlin
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:7 releases, 86 reviews, 222 commits in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Abduqodiri primarily focused on improving the behavior of iterators within immutable collections. Their contributions involved fixing iterator functionalities in different places. Additionally, the user implemented new persistent data structures, including PersistentHashMap and PersistentHashSet. They also wrote and modified tests for these collections, specifically within the immutable set test suite.
kotlin-languagekotlinpersistent-collectionsimmutablepersistent
JetBrains/kotlin-native
Mar 2019 - Apr 2021
Kotlin/Native infrastructure
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 111 commits, 76 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Abduqodiri primarily contributed to the Kotlin/Native infrastructure by implementing and refining core language features. Their work included promoting `CancellationException` to stable status, improving character conversions, and introducing locale-agnostic case conversions for strings. They also focused on commonizing character category functions, enhancing the overall capabilities of the Kotlin/Native runtime environment.
infrastructuredockerkotlinkuberneteskotlin-native
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