Ekaterina Prigara is a product leader with 11 years of experience shaping developer tools and IDEs, currently leading product discovery for Air, an AI-first developer tool, and heading a cross-functional team on JetBrains Fleet. She blends a strong technical background in mathematics and computer science with product and marketing chops developed at JetBrains and Yandex, driving vision, roadmaps, user research, and UX-led validation. Ekaterina pairs hands-on front-end experience—contributing React UI work to the popular confs.tech conference aggregator—with deep familiarity of developer workflows from her time on IntelliJ Platform and WebStorm. Based in Munich, she leverages international education and industry experience to spot ecosystem trends and translate them into practical features that improve developer productivity. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic strategist who channels engineering empathy into prioritization and shipping delightful, usable tools.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) International Business (Technology and Innovation Management), Master of Science (MSc) International Business (Technology and Innovation Management) at Saint Petersburg State University
Exchange student Entreprenership Management of Innovation, Exchange student Entreprenership Management of Innovation at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
Summer Session Student Marketing Web Development, Summer Session Student Marketing Web Development at University of California, Berkeley
Bachelor's degree Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Mathematics and Computer Science at Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University
Contributions:5 reviews, 71 commits, 51 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Ekaterina primarily contributed to the front-end development of the `confs.tech` project, focusing on React components and UI updates. Their commits included changes to the conference listing, conference details page, and the addition of a banner component. They also addressed issues related to the submission form and website content.
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