Nikolay Lunyak
Программист at JetBrains
Paphos Municipality, Cyprus
Summary
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Top SchoolNikolay Lunyak is a software engineer with nine years' experience, currently working on the Kotlin compiler at JetBrains and contributing concrete JVM diagnostics and FIR2IR test runners to the high-profile kotlin repository. He brings a cross-language systems background spanning Kotlin/Java compiler internals, C++ graphics and Qt, and Python ML tooling, alongside practical frontend and Android experience. Comfortable across low-level I/O, game engines (Unreal/Unity/LibGDX), and web stacks, he often bridges compiler-level concerns with application-level implementations. Based in Cyprus, he pairs formal computer science training from St. Petersburg Polytechnic with production-grade engineering at JetBrains. Notably, his open-source work enforces subtle correctness properties like backing-field visibility and JVM diagnostic support, reflecting an attention to language semantics as well as tooling.
9 years of coding experience
Бакалавр технических наук, Computer Science, Бакалавр технических наук, Computer Science at Санкт-Петербургский политехнический университет Петра ВеликогоСреднее (полное) общее образование, Физ-мат, Среднее (полное) общее образование, Физ-мат at Saint Petersburg Lyceum 239
Github Skills (4)
kotlin10
jvm10
compiler-development10
diagnostics9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
JetBrains/kotlin
Mar 2020 - Apr 2022
The Kotlin Programming Language.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:518 commits, 10 PRs, 1013 pushes in 2 years
Contributions summary:Nikolay's contributions focused on the Kotlin programming language. The user added new runners for FIR2IR-specific tests. They introduced support for new JVM diagnostics and implemented checks related to backing field declarations, including enforcing the correct visibility for these fields. The user also made several related code improvements.
maven-plugincompilerkotlinintellij-pluginprogramming-language
lunakoly/QuickLink
Jul 2021 - Nov 2022
IntelliJ-based plugin for generating quick links to particular file lines
Contributions:17 reviews, 16 commits, 31 PRs in 1 year 3 months
particularlinespluginkotlinlinks
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