Anton Lakotko
Developer In Kotlin Multiplatform Team
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolAnton Lakotko is a seasoned backend engineer with 11 years of experience, currently contributing to the Kotlin Multiplatform team at JetBrains from Amsterdam. As a core maintainer of the Kotlin Gradle Plugin, he has driven fixes and features in one of the language's most critical build integrations, including metadata handling, native build dependency configuration, and compiler plugin support. His career spans startups and enterprise projects, from PHP-based systems and hosting automation to resilient backend services, giving him a wide practical toolkit across languages and build systems. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he frequently bridges compiler, tooling, and build-system concerns—skills that make him particularly effective at improving developer workflows in large open-source ecosystems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Student, Computer Science, Student, Computer Science at Belarus State University of Informatics and radioelectronics
Русский, Белорусский, Английский
Github Skills (8)
kotlin10
dependency-management10
gradlew10
build-automation10
gradle10
multiplatform9
compiler-plugin9
testing8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
JetBrains/kotlin
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
The Kotlin Programming Language.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 527 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Anton made several contributions related to the Kotlin Gradle Plugin, including fixing bugs in Gradle's metadata handling. They set dependencies for the kotlin-gradle-plugin-api and added testing for buildSrc to confirm these dependencies. They further updated source elements and ensured that project dependencies for native builds had the correct configurations. The user was also involved in the implementation of compiler plugin support within the Kotlin Project Model, creating and adjusting tasks related to those plugins.
maven-plugincompilerkotlinintellij-pluginprogramming-language
antohaby/koin
Aug 2019 - Dec 2019
KOIN - a pragmatic lightweight dependency injection framework for Kotlin
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
injection-frameworkinjectiondependency-injection-frameworkkotlindependency-injection
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