Nikita Ashikhmin
Team Lead at JetBrains
Yerevan, Armenia
Summary
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Top SchoolNikita Ashikhmin is a Kotlin-focused engineering leader with nine years of experience building developer tooling and big data integrations, currently leading the PyCharm Data Science team at JetBrains from Yerevan. He progressed from Big Data Tools developer to Team Lead, blending hands-on coding with product-facing decisions to improve ML and data workflows in an IDE context. With a Master's in Machine Learning from Lappeenranta University of Technology, he brings academic rigor to practical tool design and a strong sense for developer experience. Though primarily focused on Kotlin and data tooling at JetBrains, his background suggests fluency across the ML stack and a knack for translating research ideas into production-ready features. His public GitHub presence underscores a commitment to maintainable, collaborative engineering even when not spotlighting high-profile open-source projects.
9 years of coding experience
Master's degree, Machine Learning, Master's degree, Machine Learning at Lappeenranta University of Technology
English, Ukrainian, Russian
Github Skills (27)
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intellij10
ide10
intellij-idea10
java10
intellij-plugin10
code-editor10
intellij-platform10
vpn-client9
openvpn9
vpn-server9
wireguard8
visualization8
jupyter8
vpn8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nashikhmin/Zeppelin-Remote-Run
Mar 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:153 pushes, 35 branches, 2 comments in 7 months
jetbrains-infra/stamper
Jul 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:61 commits, 33 PRs, 174 pushes in 2 months
internshiptestingjetbrainsintellijenvironments
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