Summary
Denis Ambatenne is a product leader with over a decade of hands-on experience building and scaling digital products, now heading Product at JetBrains and shaping Kotlin’s strategy and ecosystem in the era of AI. He has a track record of turning complex public-sector and B2B2C problems into measurable outcomes—from tripling managed parking lots in Moscow and launching city-wide services to introducing analytics, A/B testing, and growth processes in consumer products. At JetBrains he leads PMs, data analysts, and researchers to improve developer onboarding and drive ecosystem growth, having previously increased WAU for server-side Kotlin and launched revenue-generating products at ABBYY. Comfortable both as a founder and as a senior leader, he blends technical grounding in applied mathematics with strong operational rigor across analytics, UX, and R&D. Notably, his career spans technical delivery roles through to executive leadership, giving him a rare fluency in translating low-level implementation constraints into strategic product decisions. Based in the Randstad, he focuses on helping developer ecosystems find their place in shifting technology landscapes.
4 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Specialist (Master), Applied Mathematics, Specialist (Master), Applied Mathematics at Moscow Technical University
Russian, English