Pavel Karateev
Software Developer at JetBrains
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolPavel Karateev is a software developer and engineering lead with 11 years of experience building and maintaining developer tooling and QA infrastructure at JetBrains, currently working on PyCharm. He blends hands-on Python backend development with test automation and team leadership, having grown and managed QA teams, owned release processes, and improved CI and YouTrack automation. An active open-source contributor, Pavel has strengthened Python's typing ecosystem by adding stubs and type hints to the widely used typeshed repository and improved pytest and documentation projects. His background in power engineering and research gives him a data-driven approach to problem solving and testing rigor. Based in Amsterdam, he balances technical depth with practical delivery and brings a climber’s persistence and a Go player’s strategic thinking to engineering challenges.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Power stations and substations, PhD, Power stations and substations at Tula State University
Русский, English, German
Stackoverflow
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pycharm
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Github Skills (34)
unit-testing10
static-typing10
typesc10
pytest10
python10
stub10
stubs10
testing10
dynamic-typing10
typescript10
implicit-typing10
typehinting10
type-system10
optional-typing10
strong-typing10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
yasoob/intermediatePython
Aug 2015 - Jun 2018
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:7 commits, 6 PRs, 7 comments in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Pavel primarily focuses on improving the documentation of the Python project. Their commits include correcting typos, clarifying command invocation examples, and converting data structures to reflect the correct syntax. These changes directly address issues related to code clarity and accurate representation of functionalities.
python/typeshed
May 2021 - Dec 2021
Collection of library stubs for Python, with static types
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 16 commits, 20 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Pavel's contributions primarily involve adding type hints and new features related to the Python standard library stubs within the `typeshed` repository. They implemented type hints for several Python 3.10 and 3.11 features, including `sys`, `codecs`, `curses`, `contextlib`, `fileinput`, `importlib.metadata`, `builtins`, `fractions`, `math`, `operator`, and `sqlite3`. Additionally, the user exposed new features and constants for the `curses` module. Their work ensures accurate static typing information for Python code, promoting code quality and maintainability.
mypystatic-typingpythonstubtypechecker
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