Dmitrii Smirnov
Product Lead at JetBrains
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolDmitrii Smirnov is a Product Lead at JetBrains with over a decade of experience blending product management, technical support, and customer-facing engineering to keep IntelliJ IDEA the go-to IDE for Java, Kotlin and beyond. He pairs deep technical hands-on experience—contributing to VCS plugins like Perforce in the IntelliJ open-source ecosystem—with a data-informed yet intuition-driven product sense. Dmitrii excels at digging to the root cause of problems, turning user feedback and support insights into prioritized roadmaps and practical features, including AI-assisted workflows. His background leading support teams and automating complex deployments gives him an uncommon empathy for both enterprise customers and developer ergonomics. Based in Amsterdam, he’s known for balancing code-quality fixes and strategic product choices to deliver tangible developer productivity gains.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Specialist, Engineer's degree, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Specialist at Saint Petersburg University of Telecommunications
Russian, English, Dutch
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Github Skills (19)
intellij-idea10
java10
perforce10
javas10
intellij-platform10
git9
i18n-js8
ember-i18n8
testing8
rails-i18n8
gnupg6
version-control6
pycharm6
rebase6
android-studio6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
JetBrains/intellij-plugins
Oct 2020 - Jun 2022
Open-source plugins included in the distribution of IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate and other IDEs based on the IntelliJ Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Dmitrii primarily contributed to the Perforce integration plugin for IntelliJ IDEA. Their work involved refactoring and adapting the plugin for compatibility with the community edition. They also addressed issues related to command-line parameter passing and host resolution within the Perforce tests. Additionally, the user fixed i18n warnings, updated binaries, and restored mnemonics, indicating a focus on code quality and maintenance.
intellij-platformintellij-ideaideintellij-pluginjetbrains
JetBrains/intellij-deps-ini4j
Jun 2017 - Jul 2019
Fork of ini4j library with patches needed for IntelliJ IDEA
Contributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 2 years
intellij-platformintellij-ideapatchesintellij-pluginjava
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