Lana Novikova
Co-Founder at LegacyForge
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolLana Novikova is a Product Manager with nine years of experience shaping AI-driven developer tools, NLP features, and IDE experiences at JetBrains. She specializes in turning LLM and context-engineering capabilities into scalable, cost-efficient products that improve developer flow—leading 0-to-1 launches for text completion and AI Assistant integrations while balancing latency, cost, and trust. Her background as a technical writer and docs leader across major e-commerce and adtech firms gives her unusual strength in bridging deep technical teams and end users, turning complex systems into clear product narratives and actionable roadmaps. Comfortable in ambiguous, high-impact spaces, she excels at aligning ML, engineering, design, research, and business stakeholders to make advanced AI feel simple and useful. Based in Amsterdam, Lana combines product strategy with hands-on discovery, metrics-driven tradeoffs, and an eye for adoption levers that drive real developer productivity.
8 years of coding experience
Specialist, Political Science and Government, 4,9, Specialist, Political Science and Government, 4,9 at Пермский Государственный Университет (ПГУ)Postgraduate student, Political science, Postgraduate student, Political science at Perm State University (PSU)
English, German, Dutch
Github Skills (38)
kotlin9
highlighting8
structured-data8
pipeline8
gelf8
kotlin-library8
dataframe8
json8
alex8
logrus7
displays7
kafka7
intellij-plugin7
sre7
prismic7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
lananovikova10/help-documentation
Jan 2023 - Feb 2024
Contributions:173 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 1 month
lananovikova10/howtoberlin
May 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:16 commits, 4 PRs, 11 pushes in 3 months
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