Denis Lesnik
Senior Engineering Manager at JetBrains
Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolDenis Lesnik is a Senior Engineering Manager based in Bavaria with 10 years of experience building high-performing frontend and full-stack teams and shipping large-scale developer tooling. At JetBrains he scaled a cross-functional department of 40+ engineers, introduced a shared execution rhythm, and launched an AI tooling subsystem from scratch within six months while driving gradual Agile adoption. He has deep hands-on roots in performance engineering—optimizing web vitals and bringing TTI from seconds to milliseconds using service workers and advanced caching—and led the Pipelines team to ProductHunt Top-3. Comfortable across React, Node.js and cloud tooling, Denis pairs technical curiosity with pragmatic process improvements, and he invests in internal training programs to grow capabilities in AI, AWS and project management. An unspoken strength is his ability to translate isolated roadmaps into coordinated customer-focused workstreams that unlock cross-team delivery.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Software development, Software development at Tomsk State University of Control Systems and RadioelectronicsMaster of Computer Applications - MCA Computer Science in Geoinformational Systems, Master of Computer Applications - MCA Computer Science in Geoinformational Systems at Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography (MIIGAiK)
Английский, Украинский, Russian, German
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Github Skills (75)
storybook10
ui-components10
jetbrains10
teamcity10
storybook-addon10
jetbrains-ui10
iframe10
vstest10
react10
msbuild9
api8
dotnet8
javascript8
nuget8
windowing8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Blacknikomo/js-algorithms
Oct 2021 - Nov 2023
Contributions:1 PR, 36 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 1 month
JetBrains/teamcity-sakura-ui-plugins
Sep 2020 - Aug 2021
Contributions:33 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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