Leonid Khachaturov
Software Developer at JetBrains
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolLeonid Khachaturov is a seasoned frontend-focused software developer with 14 years of experience building polished, high-quality user interfaces and UI frameworks at JetBrains. He has led teams through product inception and launch—most notably contributing to JetBrains Space’s UI framework—and has long-standing ownership of Upsource and Ring UI components. Leonid blends practical UI craftsmanship with full-stack build and CI/CD expertise, having improved Kotlin+React tooling and contributed to flagship open-source projects like codemirror and kotlin-wrappers. Based in Munich, he brings a rare combination of product-minded leadership and hands-on implementation, from designing interactive components to fixing linting, dep, and build pipeline issues. Notably, his open-source work includes adding React hydration and portal APIs to Kotlin wrappers and creating a Kotlin mode for CodeMirror, reflecting deep investment in developer tooling. He pairs a Master’s in Computer Science with a track record of maintaining consistency and usability across large, complex web products.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master Computer Science, Master Computer Science at Yaroslavl State UniversityYaroslavl School №4 with advanced learning of English
Russian, English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (22)
kotlin10
editors10
javascript10
text-editor10
css10
editor10
webpack10
webpacker10
code-editor10
codemirror10
react10
create-react-app9
html9
cicd8
npm7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
JetBrains/kotlin-wrappers
Oct 2017 - Jan 2023
Kotlin wrappers for popular JavaScript libraries
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:667 releases, 82 reviews, 951 commits in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Leonid primarily contributed to the Kotlin wrappers for popular JavaScript libraries by formatting and implementing new methods, like `hydrate`, `createPortal` and `useInsertionEffect` within the `kotlin-react-dom` and `kotlin-react` packages. They added a new example and cleaned up existing ones for projects that utilized `React`, enhancing the utility and maintainability of the library wrappers. Furthermore, they worked on fixing deprecation warnings and handling various related issues.
kotlin-jsreactcssjavascriptstyled-components
JetBrains/create-react-kotlin-app
Sep 2017 - Jan 2022
Create React apps using Kotlin with no build configuration
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:85 commits, 83 PRs, 86 pushes in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Leonid contributed to various aspects of the project, including code improvements and updates to the build process. They addressed formatting issues in example code, fixed lint errors, and updated dependencies. Furthermore, the user made adjustments to the build configuration, and made changes to the CI/CD process. These changes touched upon both the front-end (React components) and the build configuration.
react-appsreactjetbrains-uibuild-configurationcreate-react
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