Summary
Dmitry Pogrebnoy is a Team Lead at JetBrains with eight years of software engineering experience focused on AI-powered developer tooling, notably for RubyMine. He combines hands-on engineering with product-minded improvements—shipping LLM inline completions, AI-driven unit test generation, and a novel in-IDE survey system that increased feedback conversion tenfold. Dmitry has a strong NLP/ML background from a master's in Big Data and Machine Learning and published research on AI spelling correction for Russian medical texts. He has a track record of mentoring interns into full-time hires and tripling RubyMine project wizard usage through a UX-led redesign. Based in Belgrade, he also speaks widely about debugger internals at major Ruby conferences, bridging deep technical insight with practical developer productivity gains.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Software engineering, 4.78/5, Bachelor's degree, Software engineering, 4.78/5 at Санкт-Петербургский Государственный Университет
Master's degree, Big Data and Machine Learning, 4,83/5, Master's degree, Big Data and Machine Learning, 4,83/5 at Университет ИТМО
Russian, English