Nikita Provotorov
Senior Software Engineer at JetBrains
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolNikita Provotorov is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience, currently based in Amsterdam and focused on low-level C++/Java/Kotlin systems for JetBrains. He contributes to JetBrains Runtime and the IntelliJ Platform, with hands-on work enabling keyboard, mouse, input methods, touchscreen support and Windows ARM64 porting, and has upstreamed and reviewed input-related patches in OpenJDK. His background includes building custom C++ microservices for remote device management and early-career Qt development for backup and geophysics software, giving him a strong systems-and-embedded perspective. He has taught and reviewed C++ courses at Novosibirsk State University and the Computer Science Center, and even built GitHub Actions-based infrastructure for assignment management. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who bridges application-level product features and deep runtime/infrastructure work, comfortable both shipping product-facing features and contributing to upstream open-source projects.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Computer Science, Master, Computer Science at Novosibirsk State University (NSU)
Github Skills (41)
jetbrains10
intellij10
jvm10
windows10
ide10
linux10
intellij-idea10
java10
openjdk10
simple-framework10
android-plugin10
intellij-plugin10
code-editor10
macos10
intellij-platform10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
NikitkoCent/cpp-xor-list
Apr 2018 - Sep 2019
C++11-compatible implementation of XOR linked list with STL-like interface
Contributions:4 releases, 8 PRs, 59 pushes in 1 year 6 months
cpplinked-listc-plus-plusheader-onlystl
NikitkoCent/engnr-nsu-cpp-2021
Nov 2021 - Mar 2022
The base repository for the tasks reviewing of the C++ course 2021
Contributions:234 reviews, 61 PRs, 19 pushes in 4 months
cpp
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