Nikita Skvortsov
Diemen, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolNikita Skvortsov is a seasoned Java and Kotlin developer with 15 years of professional experience and over a decade of hands-on coding, now leading a development team from Diemen, Netherlands. He specializes in developer tooling and IDE integrations, contributing to high-impact projects like the JetBrains Android plugin where he fixed Gradle-related build issues, resolved memory leaks, and improved project sync and notification UI. Known for pragmatic problem solving, he combines deep language-level expertise with dependency and build-system hygiene to keep complex codebases healthy. A Saint Petersburg State University-trained specialist, he brings engineering leadership that balances shipping features with improving developer experience behind the scenes.
15 years of coding experience
Specialist, Specialist at Saint Petersburg State University
Russian, English
Github Skills (10)
plugin-development10
javas10
gradlew10
android10
intellij-idea10
java10
plugin10
gradle10
build-automation9
kotlin6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
JetBrains/android
Nov 2017 - Jul 2022
Android Plugin for IntelliJ IDEA. This repository is a subset of https://git.jetbrains.org/?p=idea/android.git cut according to GitHub file size limitations.
Role in this project:
Android Developer
Android DeveloperContributions:32 commits, 1 comment in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Nikita primarily contributed to the Android plugin for IntelliJ IDEA by addressing Gradle-related issues. Their work included fixing build errors, improving documentation, and updating dependencies like TAPI to Gradle 7.4. They also worked on resolving a memory leak, removing workarounds, and implementing UI improvements related to notifications. The contributions involved modifications in core Gradle execution code and project sync functionalities.
file-sizeandroid-studiointellij-ideaandroid-pluginandroid
JetBrains/teamcity-gradle
Nov 2010 - Mar 2017
Contributions:158 commits in 6 years 5 months
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