Dmitry Savvinov
Founding Engineer at CodeSpeak
The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolDmitry Savvinov is a principal engineer and founding engineer with a decade of experience designing and shipping compiler and multiplatform tooling, currently leading development at CodeSpeak after a long tenure at JetBrains. He was a key author of Kotlin Contracts, owned data-flow analysis and smartcasts in the Kotlin compiler, and led the Kotlin Multiplatform team where he shaped architecture, strategy, hiring, and delivery. Dmitry oversees the entire Kotlin Multiplatform toolchain and drives deep infrastructural changes, combining hands-on compiler work with people and process leadership. His open-source contributions to the flagship JetBrains/kotlin repo include improving debugging, refining enum and type handling, and strengthening multiplatform behavior through targeted tests—work that affects millions of Kotlin users. Based in The Hague, he pairs rigorous academic training in software engineering with a knack for turning complex language design problems into practical, maintainable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Software Engineering, Master's degree, Software Engineering at St. Petersburg Academic UniversityBachelor's degree, Informatics, 4.85, Bachelor's degree, Informatics, 4.85 at Томский Политехнический Университет
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Github Skills (16)
kotlin10
compiler10
debugging10
debug10
compiler-compiler10
multiplatform10
testing10
gradlew9
gradle9
programming-language9
generics6
maven-publish6
android6
kotlin-multiplatform6
jetbrains-compose6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
JetBrains/kotlin
Jul 2016 - Aug 2022
The Kotlin Programming Language.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 1 review, 1189 commits in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Dmitry primarily worked on improving the Kotlin compiler and related tooling. Their contributions focused on enhancing debugging capabilities by adding debug strings to various frontend scopes and package fragment providers. They also addressed issues related to multiplatform projects and refined enum entry and enum-type handling within the compiler's type system. Furthermore, the user added and modified tests to ensure the correct behavior of the compiler.
maven-plugincompilerkotlinintellij-pluginprogramming-language
dsavvinov/kotlin
Mar 2017 - Apr 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 78 pushes, 27 branches in 7 years 3 months
kotlinprogramming-language
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