Victor Kropp
Team Lead at JetBrains
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolVictor Kropp is a seasoned software leader with 15 years of experience, currently heading a team at JetBrains from Munich. He rose through engineering ranks at JetBrains since 2008, combining deep backend expertise with full‑stack plugin work for IntelliJ Platform and a practical knack for tooling. His open-source contributions include evolving Machine.Specifications' ReSharper runner, adding Makefile language support to IntelliJ plugins, and porting python-fitparse to Python 3, showing a pattern of keeping developer tooling current. Victor excels at refactoring and API migration work that smooths upgrades for large IDE ecosystems, and he pairs that with pragmatic parser and lexer implementations. Colleagues describe him as a steady technical lead who balances hands‑on coding with mentoring and long‑term platform stewardship.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Computer Science, Engineer's degree, Computer Science at Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University
English, German, Russian
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Github Skills (29)
unit-testing10
parser10
ide-plugin10
python10
net10
dotnet10
asp-net10
lexical-analysis10
parsing10
parse10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
syntax-highlighting10
dotnet-new9
mspec9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
JetBrains/intellij-plugins
Dec 2016 - Nov 2020
Open-source plugins included in the distribution of IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate and other IDEs based on the IntelliJ Platform
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:361 commits in 4 years
Contributions summary:Victor contributed to the IntelliJ IDEA plugin project, focusing on adding features for Makefile support. Their work included creating a Makefile file type definition, a lexer to parse Makefile syntax, a parser for handling Makefile syntax, and structure view elements to present a hierarchy of targets in the editor. They also implemented basic completion and syntax highlighting for the defined language constructs.
intellij-platformintellij-ideaideintellij-pluginjetbrains
machine/machine.specifications
May 2011 - Jan 2013
Machine.Specifications is a Context/Specification framework for .NET that removes language noise and simplifies tests.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Victor primarily contributed to the Machine.Specifications ReSharper runner, focusing on integrating and updating the runner to work with new APIs. They refactored code, renamed and updated class names to match the latest JetBrains ReSharper API versions and fixed the code. These updates involved modifying tasks and element classes.
dotnetmspectestingspecificationfluent-assertions
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