Summary
Anastasia Kazakova is a seasoned software leader with 12 years of experience bridging engineering, marketing, and ecosystem strategy within the developer tools space. Currently Head of the .NET and GameDev ecosystems at JetBrains, she has progressed through product marketing and business development roles, pairing deep technical background in C++ and .NET with GTM and community-building expertise. Based in the Netherlands, she also chairs the program committee for C++ Under the Sea, demonstrating a commitment to technical community stewardship beyond corporate responsibilities. A former Ph.D. student and Microsoft Research intern, she brings rigorous academic training and hands-on systems experience to strategic initiatives, often translating developer needs into product and partnership outcomes. Known as a storyteller at heart, she combines analytical precision with a marketer’s sense for narrative to grow ecosystems and engage developer audiences.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Internship Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Internship Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
Specialist Software Engineering, Specialist Software Engineering at Saint-Petersburg State University
English, Russian, German, Dutch