Justin Kaeser
Team Lead at JetBrains
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolJustin Kaeser is a Team Lead at JetBrains with 14 years of experience designing and stabilizing developer tooling at scale, currently coordinating Bazel integration into IntelliJ IDEA. He bridges deep engineering and customer-facing roles—previously improving sbt and co-developing the Build Server Protocol while helping customers solve real-world build and Scala toolchain pain points. Comfortable across distributed systems, Scala, Akka, Kafka and build infrastructure, he has a track record of shipping integrations that make complex developer workflows reliable. Based in Munich with a background in computational linguistics and bioinformatics, he brings a multidisciplinary perspective that often surfaces unconventional solutions to tooling problems.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Ludwig Maximilian University of MunichBioinformatics, Bioinformatics at FH WeihenstephanBachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at Hochschule München
English, German, Russian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (141)
minecraft10
language-server-protocol10
intellij-idea10
zinc10
extensible10
launcher10
scala-native10
shiny10
project-structure10
blocking10
intellij-plugin10
scalable10
sbt-plugin10
artifact10
teamcity10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
libling/sbt-hackling
May 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:57 commits, 2 PRs, 31 pushes in 2 months
prototypescaladependenciessbt
jastice/recipes
May 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:6 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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