Julia Alexandrova
Head Of Localization And Copyediting
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolJulia Alexandrova is a seasoned localization and technical writing leader with 12 years in software product teams and a long career at JetBrains where she now heads Localization and Copyediting. She builds and enforces company-wide localization strategies, leads cross-functional teams of writers, editors and vendors, and drives tooling and workflow integrations to scale market penetration. Her background in technical writing, customer support leadership and ESL/translation gives her a rare combination of linguistic precision, product-focused documentation skills and operational management. She has negotiated vendor partnerships, scoped global projects end-to-end, and runs training programs to raise internal and external contributor quality. Based in Munich with a PhD in Germanic Languages, she blends academic rigor with pragmatic localization engineering—often troubleshooting localization toolchains alongside developers. Colleagues rely on her calm under pressure, diversity sensitivity and knack for turning complex technical content into clear, localized customer-facing copy.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Germanic Languages, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Germanic Languages at Saint Petersburg State UniversityTeacher of English and German as a Second Language, 5.0, Teacher of English and German as a Second Language, 5.0 at Pskov State Pedagogical University named after S.M. KirovPskov school 25
Russian, English, German, French
Github Skills (138)
nuget10
intellij-idea10
intellij-plugin10
code-editor10
teamcity10
jetbrains-ides10
heuristics10
azure-vm10
translate10
publisher10
android-studio10
intellij-platform10
kotlin10
gradle10
intellij10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
JetBrains/teamcity-documentation
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
Source repository of TeamCity Help
Contributions:13 reviews, 334 commits, 32 PRs in 9 months
teamcity
Julia-Alexandrova/java_sample
Feb 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:4 PRs, 35 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 4 months
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