Samvel Abrahamyan is an engineering manager with 8–9 years of hands-on experience building data platforms, distributed systems, and developer tools, currently leading engineering at Leapfin. He blends technical leadership with deep backend expertise—particularly around build systems and BSP integrations—having contributed to prominent open-source projects like Mill and the IntelliJ Scala plugin to improve build performance, logging, and test reporting. Samvel has a track record of modernizing legacy environments and improving reliability and performance while growing teams and shaping architecture for long-term scalability. Based in Yerevan and educated at the University of Warsaw, he pairs pragmatic delivery with attention to developer experience, evidenced by contributions that surfaced better traceability and headless CLI support for complex tooling.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. Computer Science, B.Sc. Computer Science at University of Warsaw
Mill is a fast build tool that supports Java, Scala, Kotlin and many other languages. 2-4x faster than Gradle and 4-10x faster than Maven for common workflows, Mill aims to make your project’s build process performant, maintainable, and flexible
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Build & Release Engineer
Contributions:10 commits, 16 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Samvel primarily contributed to the `mill` build tool, focusing on its BSP (Build Server Protocol) integration. Their work included fixing data kind and status reporting in BSP related tasks. Additionally, they addressed test reporting issues, improving the accuracy of test results and added stack traces for failed tests. Moreover, the user refactored and improved the code's formatting within the BSP module and related configurations.
Contributions:18 commits, 10 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Samvel primarily contributed to the development of the BSP (Build Server Protocol) integration within the IntelliJ Scala plugin. Their work included adding logging capabilities to track communication with the BSP server, enhancing the trace logging with timestamps and file management, and incorporating UI elements for enabling/disabling trace logs. Furthermore, the user contributed to the BSP CLI, including adding command-line functionality and resolving issues with headless operation. The contributions focused on improving debugging, logging, and the overall functionality of the BSP integration.
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Samvel Abrahamyan - Engineering Manager at Leapfin