Andrey Akinshin
Staff Engineer at JetBrains
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolAndrey Akinshin is a Staff Engineer with 13 years of experience focusing on developer productivity and performance engineering, currently based in Amsterdam and working at JetBrains. He maintains BenchmarkDotNet and pragmastat, and has a proven track record of applying rigorous benchmarking and performance methodology to widely used .NET projects such as NodaTime and WPF. With a strong academic background—PhD and postdoctoral work in mathematics and computer science—he combines deep theoretical rigor with practical engineering, often migrating and upgrading benchmarking frameworks to improve real-world performance. His contributions span backend systems, test automation, and tooling for site generation, reflecting attention to code quality, maintainability, and measurable speedups. Colleagues describe him as someone who brings research-grade analysis to production engineering, turning subtle inefficiencies into repeatable performance wins.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Mathematics and Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Mathematics and Computer Science at Altai State Technical UniversityPostdoctoral Research Fellow Mathematics and Computer Science, Postdoctoral Research Fellow Mathematics and Computer Science at Weizmann Institute of Science
Russian, English
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Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
dotnet/wpf
Dec 2018 - Dec 2018
WPF is a .NET Core UI framework for building Windows desktop applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 13 PRs, 11 comments in 17 days
Contributions summary:Andrey contributed to the .NET WPF framework, primarily by fixing typos in comments and removing unnecessary semicolons. They also refactored code by using underscores for unused out variables and making fields used in GetHashCode() readonly. The contributions suggest a focus on code quality, maintainability, and adherence to coding standards within the WPF project.
coreuidotnetwindowswindows-desktopwpf
nodatime/nodatime
May 2015 - Feb 2016
A better date and time API for .NET
Role in this project:Backend Engineer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Engineer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:8 commits, 1 PR in 9 months
Contributions summary:Andrey primarily contributed to benchmarking the NodaTime library, migrating the existing benchmarks to the BenchmarkDotNet framework, and upgrading the framework version. The commits demonstrate a focus on performance testing and ensuring the library's efficiency. Additionally, the user fixed an issue related to comparison operators in the BclTests and made minor code adjustments.
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