Sam Kortekaas
Software Engineer at JetBrains
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolSam Kortekaas is a software engineer with eight years of experience who currently develops Swift language support for JetBrains IDEs in Amsterdam. He moved from an internship that shipped cross-language call hierarchy and completion features into a full engineering role focused on improving developer tooling. His open-source contributions to the Swift compiler and SourceKit show a particular strength in compiler internals and IDE-focused type analysis, including work to surface fully qualified types and better index local symbols. Sam combines formal CS training at Codam with high academic achievement in urban geography and a CS minor from the University of Amsterdam, reflecting a blend of technical rigor and multidisciplinary thinking. Prior roles at Apple and hands-on customer-facing experience give him a pragmatic perspective on developer and user needs. He’s especially skilled at bridging deep compiler work with practical IDE features that improve everyday developer workflows.
8 years of coding experience
Computer Science, Computer Science at Codam CollegeBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Urban Geography & Planning, 8.2/10 (Cum Laude), Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Urban Geography & Planning, 8.2/10 (Cum Laude) at Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Github Skills (10)
ide10
swift10
compiler-design10
develop10
sourcekit10
computer-engineering9
code-analysis9
api8
apidoc8
testing7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
swiftlang/swift
Sep 2022 - Sep 2022
The Swift Programming Language
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Compiler Engineer
Back-end Developer / Compiler EngineerContributions:9 reviews, 2 commits, 7 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Sam primarily contributed to the Swift compiler, focusing on improving SourceKit functionality. Their work included adding options for fully qualified types in expression type requests and variable type requests, enhancing the information provided by the compiler's type checking features. Furthermore, they addressed issues related to implicit expressions and the indexing of local symbols, demonstrating a focus on improving the accuracy and completeness of the Swift compiler's analysis capabilities. This involved modifying multiple source files related to IDE support and source code analysis.
swift-programmingswift-programming-languageprogramming-languageswift
skrtks/norminette
May 2021 - Aug 2022
Norminette plugin for CLion
Contributions:82 commits, 7 PRs, 91 pushes in 1 year 3 months
norminetteclion
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