Ilya Ryzhenkov
Product Manager at JetBrains
Tbilisi, Germany
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Top SchoolIlya Ryzhenkov is a seasoned product manager at JetBrains with 15 years at the company and 13 years of hands-on experience in software engineering and product leadership. He led the .NET department and ReSharper product for six years and was an early member of the Kotlin team, helping design language features like DSLs and coroutines that made Kotlin concise, safe, and enjoyable to use. Today he leads product for JetBrains Space, a next-generation collaborative development environment, blending deep technical understanding with product strategy. His open-source contributions span backend work in Ktor and performance-oriented changes in the TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks, showing a sustained focus on routing, serialization, and database integration. Based in Tbilisi and affiliated with Germany, he combines language-design insight with practical backend engineering and test automation experience. Colleagues describe him as someone who not only invents features but also builds the community and processes that make them succeed.
13 years of coding experience
Computer Science, Computer Science at Novosibirsk State University (NSU)
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Github Skills (37)
kotlin10
unit-testing10
url-routing10
benchmark10
frameworkbenchmarks10
apidoc10
testing10
http-header10
benchmarking10
junit10
ktor10
api10
microbenchmark10
performance-optimization10
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
ktorio/ktor
Sep 2014 - Sep 2018
Framework for quickly creating connected applications in Kotlin with minimal effort
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 829 commits, 45 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Ilya's contributions primarily focused on implementing and refining the locations feature within the Ktor framework, which includes the encoding and decoding of parameters in data binding, handling URL-encoded path parameters, query parameters, and supporting enums in the location service. They were responsible for the code related to handling, processing and the framework's routing, adding and enhancing features like "delete" function to locations DSL. The user's work involved modifying classes that include core capabilities like data conversion.
effortasynchronousframeworkconnectedkotlin
Kotlin/dokka
Jul 2014 - Oct 2015
API documentation engine for Kotlin
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:1 release, 176 commits, 4 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Ilya contributed to the initial development of unit tests by adding JUnit dependencies and setting up test folders. They also added a Kotlin file for initial model building without dependencies. Furthermore, the user implemented a primitive API for analyzing JetFile within the BindingContext. The commits involved the modification of core source files related to API compilation and context, indicating a focus on back-end functionalities.
apidokkaapi-documentationkotlinjavadoc
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