Philip Torchinsky
Senior IP Enforcement Specialist at Keepdev Oy
Helsinki, Finland
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Philip Torchinsky is a Senior IP Enforcement Specialist and veteran technologist based in Helsinki with over 12 years of industry experience and deep roots in UNIX and Solaris ecosystems. He has evangelized advanced technologies at Sun/Oracle and JetBrains, given 900+ talks worldwide, authored two books on UNIX/Solaris, and routinely translates complex technical concepts into accessible training and marketing materials. As CEO of Keepdev and former Community Support Manager at JetBrains, he blends hands-on systems and cloud expertise with product advocacy and cross-cultural customer engagement. His open-source contributions include practical backend fixes to a widely used academic-domain detection repo (JetBrains/swot), showing attention to detail in tooling that supports real-world workflows. Trained as a physicist (PhD) with an MA in Computer Science, he combines rigorous analytical thinking with a talent for persuading skeptical technical audiences.
11 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
school 239Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Physics and Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Physics and Mathematics at Institute of Macromolecular CompoundsMA Computer Science, MA Computer Science at Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic UniversitySt. Petersburg School #239
Russian, English
Github Skills (5)
kotlin10
gradle8
testing8
build-automation8
gradlew8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
JetBrains/swot
Jun 2015 - Jan 2023
Identify email addresses or domains names that belong to colleges or universities. Help automate the process of approving or rejecting academic discounts.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:11191 commits, 23741 PRs, 16799 pushes in 7 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Philip contributed to the project by modifying test cases, fixing a blacklist, and implementing changes related to domain handling and compilation. They updated test files to include new test cases, modified scripts for domain processing and blacklisting, and altered the compilation process. The user also made updates to the project's build process and dependencies.
pythonemailaddressesemail-addressescolleges
philipto/swot
Jun 2015 - Jan 2020
Identify email addresses or domains names that belong to colleges or universities. Help automate the process of approving or rejecting academic discounts.
Contributions:156 PRs, 289 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
pythonemailaddressesemail-addressescolleges
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