Maxim Kolmakov
Technical Lead at JetBrains
Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMaxim Kolmakov is a Technical Lead at JetBrains with 14 years of hands-on QA and automation experience, primarily shaping quality for the IntelliJ Platform and PhpStorm. He combines deep exploratory testing and performance automation with a developer’s attention to correctness, as shown by his PHP runtime and stubs contributions that fix signatures and maintain API integrity. Prior roles at JetBrains, Oracle, and Intel reflect a strong foundation in black-box testing, test automation, and lab reliability, complemented by early systems and parallel-programming work. Based in Bavaria and trained in computational physics, he blends analytical rigor with pragmatic engineering, often surfacing subtle correctness issues that prevent downstream bugs.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computational Physics, MS, Computational Physics at Санкт-Петербургский Государственный Университет
English, Russian, German
Github Skills (6)
typehinting10
php10
type-checking10
phpstorm10
json8
dom7
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
JetBrains/phpstorm-stubs
Apr 2018 - Nov 2020
PHP runtime & extensions header files for PhpStorm
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 57 reviews, 74 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Maxim primarily contributed to fixing signatures and correcting function definitions within the PHP runtime and extensions header files. Their work included modifying the return types and parameter options of several PHP functions, ensuring the accuracy of the code. They also reverted changes related to JSON encoding and decoding and DOMNodeList behavior, indicating a role focused on maintaining and correcting the PHP codebase. This suggests a strong focus on maintaining the integrity of the PHP stubs.
header-filesphpphpstorm
ScattPy/scikits.scattpy
Sep 2011 - May 2012
Contributions:29 commits in 7 months
pythonlightlight-scatteringpython3scattering
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