Pavel Nikitin
Senior Software Developer at JetBrains
Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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RockstarPavel Nikitin is a Senior Software Developer with 17 years at JetBrains, where he progressed from Software Developer to Technical Lead and now focuses on backend and database engineering. Based in Bavaria, Germany, he contributes to high‑performance, transactional systems—most notably refactoring and optimizing Xodus, the schema-less embedded database used by JetBrains products like YouTrack. His work blends deep systems-level coding, index and cache optimization, and rigorous testing to improve reliability and throughput in production services. Known for turning complex database internals into maintainable code, he brings long-term institutional knowledge and pragmatic engineering judgment to large codebases.
17 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
English, German
Github Skills (9)
javas10
database-design10
java10
concurrency10
data-structure9
algorithm9
data-structures9
algorithms9
testing8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
JetBrains/xodus
Aug 2014 - Jan 2019
Transactional schema-less embedded database used by JetBrains YouTrack and JetBrains Hub.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:429 commits, 1 PR, 353 pushes in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Pavel's commits primarily focus on refactoring and improving the transactional schema-less embedded database, Xodus, used by JetBrains. Their contributions include fixing bugs and implementing new features related to caching, reordering, and index optimization within the database. The commits also include improvements to the testing of the database's functionality.
embedded-databaseyoutrackschema-lessjdbcentity-store
morj/yjp-flamegraphs
Feb 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:3 releases, 13 commits, 9 pushes in 2 months
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