Anna Zhdan
Principal Engineer at JetBrains
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolAnna Zhdan is a Principal Engineer with 15 years of experience, currently leading the technical direction and architecture of JetBrains' Junie platform and heading development of an AI-powered SWE agent based on Koog. She progressed through roles at JetBrains from software engineer to development lead, driving YouTrack backend architecture, a Kotlin backend migration, and performance improvements for enterprise JVM web applications. Her work spans backend systems, REST APIs, search and import subsystems, and administrative UIs, combining deep systems design with pragmatic delivery. Based in Munich, she pairs an MEng in Computer Science with a mechanical engineering bachelor, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to solving engineering problems. Colleagues value her for turning complex performance and migration challenges into robust, maintainable platforms while advancing developer tooling with applied AI.
15 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science, Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science at St Petersburg Academic UniversityBachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechanical Engineering at Saint-Petersburg State Polytechnic University
Github Skills (34)
kotlin10
transactional10
jetbrains10
xodus10
java10
youtrack10
embeddable10
embedded-database10
database10
key-value9
dsl9
nosql9
jetbrains-hub9
sql9
github-services9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
JetBrains/youtrack-rest-ruby-library
Sep 2011 - Oct 2017
Contributions:3 commits, 1 push in 6 years 2 months
anna239/xodus-dnq
Aug 2024 - Feb 2025
Data definition and queries Kotlin DSL over Xodus
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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