Nikita Eshkeev
Computer Scientist
St Petersburg, St Petersburg City, Russia
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Top SchoolNikita Eshkeev is a seasoned computer scientist with 11 years of hands-on experience building developer tooling and enterprise software, including a core engineering role on IntelliJ IDEA at JetBrains. He has deep Java and JVM expertise from positions at JetBrains, Luxoft, Fastdev and EPAM, and has contributed notable improvements to the Scala 3 compiler—enhancing cross-platform testing and documentation for a high-profile open-source project. Nikita’s work on IntelliJ plugins emphasizes internationalization and maintainability, demonstrating attention to developer UX and localization. Academically strong with a master’s in computer science, he pairs rigorous engineering with practical team leadership and a track record of shipping robust tooling for large organizations.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Science, 4.32, Bachelor, Computer Science, 4.32 at Izhevsk State Technical University (ISTU)
English, Russian
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Github Skills (29)
rails-i18n10
testing10
plugin-development10
java10
scala10
dotty10
javas10
compiler-compiler10
ember-i18n10
scalajs10
i18n-js10
compiler10
intellij-platform10
flex9
plsql9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
scala/scala3
Sep 2019 - Oct 2019
The Scala 3 compiler, also known as Dotty.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:50 commits, 34 PRs, 27 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Nikita Eshkeev primarily worked on enhancing the Scala 3 compiler's functionality. Their contributions included removing outdated plugins, fixing typos and broken links in the documentation, and enabling various Scala.js tests. Furthermore, they enabled multiple test suites and implemented blacklisting for different groups of tests, indicating a focus on improving the project's testing infrastructure and cross-platform compatibility.
compilerdottyscalascala3epfl
JetBrains/intellij-plugins
Jun 2020 - Aug 2020
Open-source plugins included in the distribution of IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate and other IDEs based on the IntelliJ Platform
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Nikita Eshkeev's contributions primarily involve modifying and enhancing IntelliJ IDEA plugins. They focused on internationalization (i18n), replacing hardcoded strings with i18n properties across multiple modules, including idea-ui, to improve localization. Furthermore, they made improvements in the Flex related plugins. They also removed unnecessary NLS annotations and used message pointers to update messages according to the locale.
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