Summary
Iurii Shchekochikhin is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building developer tooling and enterprise software, currently focused on VSCode extensions and mainframe language support at Broadcom in Prague. He combines deep Java and TypeScript expertise with a specialty in Eclipse RCP, VSCode API, Antlr4 and CI-driven build systems, having shipped products like COBOL language servers, a TN3270 extension and a COBOL debug adapter. Past roles include leading Java development for e-commerce promo systems and designing maven-based build and import/export subsystems for embedded IDEs, where he improved performance and automated complex builds. A Moscow State University-trained engineer, he has a track record of tackling low-level integration challenges—adapting license backends and fixing custom CDT components—while keeping developer experience front and center.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer science, Master's degree, Computer science at Moscow State University of Instrument Engineering and Computer Sciences (MGUPI)
English, Russian