Son Trinh
Software Developer (IDE Services Core) at JetBrains
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolSon Trinh is a software developer with 10 years of experience, currently building IDE services core at JetBrains in Munich after several roles within JetBrains including the Bazel team. He combines a strong data-science background (MSc in Data Science from LMU) with hands-on engineering across backend, DevOps, and automation from companies like Datadog, Sea, and Gameloft. Son contributes to notable open-source work on the widely used JetBrains intellij-scala plugin, improving package search, dependency handling, and UX around library updates. His work habitually bridges tooling and developer experience, turning research-level ideas into production-ready IDE features. Colleagues know him for quickly learning new technologies and tackling problems where build tooling, language integration, and index consistency intersect. Based in Germany, he brings both academic rigor and practical product delivery to developer tooling challenges.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Ludwig Maximilian University of MunichBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at VNUHCM - University of Science
English, Vietnamese
Github Skills (6)
dependency-management10
sbt10
intellij-plugin10
scala10
java7
javas7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
JetBrains/intellij-scala
Apr 2021 - Aug 2021
Scala plugin for IntelliJ IDEA
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:107 commits, 2 PRs, 89 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Son appears to be working on integrating and enhancing the "package-search" feature within the IntelliJ Scala plugin. Their contributions focus on modifying the sbt dependency modifier, implementing UI changes, and adding new functionalities related to updating and adding libraries within the plugin. The user also addressed issues related to accessing index before it finishes.
intellij-ideascalaintellij-plugin
xuansontrinh/testing-repo
Nov 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:300 PRs, 284 pushes, 111 branches in 1 month
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