Filipp Zhinkin
Kotlin Libraries Team Lead at JetBrains
Waltham, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFilipp Zhinkin is a Kotlin-focused engineering leader with 11 years of experience building and guiding teams across Europe and the US, now leading the Kotlin Libraries team at JetBrains. His career spans systems and platform work at Oracle, Yandex, BellSoft, and multiple roles at JetBrains, reflecting deep JVM and language-library expertise. He has progressed from hands-on engineering to team leadership, shipping language libraries and runtime-adjacent tooling that support developer ecosystems. Based in Waltham, MA, he combines technical depth with cross-cultural team experience gained from stints in Saint Petersburg, Berlin, and Boston. An understated strength is his continuity in platform-level work—bridging compiler/runtime concerns with practical library design to improve developer productivity.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Specialist Computer Software Engineering, Specialist Computer Software Engineering at Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace and Instrumentation
Github Skills (84)
datetime10
programming-language10
benchmark10
kotlin-language10
python10
immutable-collections10
low-level10
maven-plugin10
openjdk10
kotlin-library10
kotlinx10
gradle-plugin10
timezone10
cpp10
binary-compatibility10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
fzhinkin/xctraceprof
Sep 2023 - Mar 2024
Contributions:3 releases, 51 pushes, 4 branches in 6 months
fzhinkin/kt-76423-benchmarks
Mar 2025 - Apr 2025
Contributions:34 PRs, 26 pushes, 11 branches in 2 days
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