Jakub Chrzanowski
IntelliJ Platform SDK Developer Advocacy Team Lead
Poland
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Top SchoolJakub Chrzanowski is a seasoned developer advocate and team lead at JetBrains with 16 years of experience building developer tools, plugins, and extensible platforms for IntelliJ IDEs. He blends hands-on engineering—refactoring samples to Gradle/Kotlin, improving SDK docs, and scaffolding plugin templates—with product and marketplace leadership across DevRel, docs, tooling, and community programs. His background spans web and backend systems, NodeJS serverless solutions, Android and PHP, and operational DevOps work, giving him a practical full-stack perspective on developer productivity. An active open-source contributor, he maintains and modernizes JetBrains’ SDK samples and templates while also contributing to notable repos like Timber, demonstrating attention to code quality and build-system modernization. Based in Poland, he’s known for pragmatic problem-solving and an appetite for “yak shaving” that turns small fixes into durable developer improvements.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin
English, Polish
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
JetBrains/intellij-platform-plugin-template
Jan 2020 - Jan 2023
Template repository for creating plugins for IntelliJ Platform
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 413 commits, 266 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Jakub primarily worked on setting up and configuring the IntelliJ Platform Plugin template, a project for creating IntelliJ plugins. Their initial contributions included the setup of a basic scaffold, integrating Gradle and Kotlin, and refactoring Java classes into Kotlin. They also integrated Detekt and Ktlint for code quality checks, and implemented GitHub Actions for release and changelog generation.
intellij-idea-pluginintellij-platformintellij-ideajetbrains-pluginintellij-plugin
JetBrains/intellij-sdk-code-samples
Feb 2020 - Aug 2022
Mirror of the IntelliJ SDK Docs Code Samples
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:54 commits, 251 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Jakub primarily worked on converting code samples to use Gradle, specifically for "tool_window", "run_configuration", and "psi_demo" examples. They also addressed various code style issues and fixed package names and namespaces within the code samples. Additionally, the user performed cleanup and maintenance tasks, including updating copyright years and addressing HTML accessibility issues. The changes demonstrate experience in refactoring and adapting existing code samples to modern build systems and best practices.
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