Oleg Yukhnevich
Team Lead at JetBrains
Paphos Municipality, Cyprus
Summary
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Top SchoolOleg Yukhnevich is a Kotlin-focused software engineer and team lead with 7 years of experience building robust back-end systems and contributor-facing tooling. Based in Cyprus, he currently leads the Dokka & KDoc efforts at JetBrains, combining deep language-tooling expertise with hands-on engineering. He has a track record of improving core Kotlin infrastructure—contributing bug fixes and reliability improvements to the popular Ktor project’s IO module—and enjoys Kotlin Multiplatform work. A graduate of the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics, Oleg balances production delivery with attention to low-level concurrency and channel correctness, an often-overlooked but critical area for resilient async systems.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Information Technology, Master, Master's degree, Information Technology, Master at Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics
Russian, English
Github Skills (5)
asynchronous10
kotlin10
testing10
async10
web-framework9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ktorio/ktor
Apr 2021 - Apr 2021
Framework for quickly creating connected applications in Kotlin with minimal effort
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:143 reviews, 2 commits, 19 PRs in 4 days
Contributions summary:Oleg primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the robustness of the `ktor-io` module, specifically addressing issues related to `ByteBufferChannel` and `ByteChannelSequential` classes. They fixed potential issues with read operations, including scenarios where reads could suspend incorrectly or freeze on closed channels. Additionally, the user contributed to the core functionality by adding a test for `readRemainingAvailable` to the `ByteChannelSmokeTest` and making other changes.
effortasynchronousframeworkconnectedkotlin
whyoleg/rsocket
Aug 2019 - Apr 2020
Kotlin MPP implementation of RSocket
Contributions:22 PRs, 80 pushes, 36 branches in 7 months
mppkotlinrsocketkotlin-mpp
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