Summary
Nikolai Rykunov is a software engineer at JetBrains with nine years of experience building and leading development of IDE features and integrations across IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm and Fleet. He has driven adoption of JetBrains' Compose UI in IDEs, migrated Fleet’s platform away from an in-house UI framework, and is technically leading efforts to split the monolithic Remote Development architecture into frontend and backend components. Previously he led the VCS team responsible for Git, GitHub and GitLab integrations and built first-class Space integration including code review and CI/CD. He also taught Java and Kotlin at the master’s level and prototyped ML-driven Git features during an AI internship, reflecting a mix of hands-on engineering, technical leadership and academic engagement. Based in Amsterdam, he combines deep platform expertise with practical experience in UI frameworks, developer workflows and distributed development tools.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computational and Applied Mathematics, Bachelor's degree, Computational and Applied Mathematics at ITMO University