Filipp Vakhitov
Software Engineer at JetBrains
Paphos Municipality, Cyprus
Summary
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Top SchoolFilipp Vakhitov is a software engineer with five years of professional experience, currently contributing to IntelliJ IDEA core and IdeaVim at JetBrains from Paphos, Cyprus. He brings strong backend Java and Spring experience from his time at LANIT Severo-Zapad and has specialized expertise in Vimscript and interpreter work demonstrated through significant contributions to the high-profile JetBrains/ideavim project. At JetBrains he implemented a new vimScript package and ANTLR grammar and improved script execution and exception handling, blending language tooling with pragmatic IDE engineering. Filipp combines solid CS fundamentals from the Higher School of Economics with hands-on experience shipping developer-facing features in a major IDE. Colleagues recognize him for tackling complex parsing and runtime issues that sit at the intersection of language design and editor integration. He prefers solving low-level integration challenges that make everyday developer workflows smoother.
5 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Higher School of Economics
Github Skills (7)
antlr10
vimscript10
backend9
back-end-development9
javas8
kotlin8
java8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
JetBrains/ideavim
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
IdeaVim – A Vim engine for JetBrains IDEs
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Vimscript Specialist
Backend Developer & Vimscript SpecialistContributions:25 reviews, 375 commits, 26 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Filipp contributed significantly to the `ideavim` project, primarily focusing on improving the Vim script execution engine. Their contributions included implementing a new `vimScript` package and antlr grammar to parse vimscript code, as well as addressing exception handling within the script execution process. Additionally, they made several code improvements and refactoring related to commands and register usage to enhance functionality.
intellij-platformvim-emulatorvimjetbrains-ideskotlin
lippfi/dotfiles
Aug 2021 - Jul 2022
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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