Yaroslav Sokolov
Team Lead at JetBrains
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolYaroslav Sokolov is a Team Lead at JetBrains with nine years of experience building developer-facing AI tools that bring recent deep learning and NLP advances into IDE workflows. He progressed from research and ML engineering roles—integrating state-of-the-art models into code completion and other IDE features—to leading a team focused on making AI capabilities accessible to software engineers without deep ML expertise. Based in Berlin, he combines a strong academic background (MS in Machine Learning, top-ranked BSc in Software Engineering) with hands-on product work like the Full Line Code Completion plugin. Known for translating research into practical developer tooling, he also has a knack for reading and synthesizing many papers quickly to drive implementation decisions.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Software Engineering, 4.9/5.0, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Software Engineering, 4.9/5.0 at Saint Petersburg State UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Machine Learning, Master of Science - MS, Machine Learning at Higher School of Economics
Russian, English, German
Github Skills (93)
word-segmentation10
intellij-idea10
jetbrains10
tokenizer10
intellij-plugin10
code-editor10
java10
intellij-platform10
intellij10
ide10
onnx9
hardware-acceleration9
high-performance9
nlp9
accelerator9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
JetBrains-Research/YouTokenToMe
Feb 2020 - Dec 2022
Unsupervised text tokenizer focused on computational efficiency
Contributions:7 reviews, 13 commits, 6 PRs in 2 years 10 months
nlptransformer-architectureunsupervisedfocusedtokenizer
SokolovYaroslav/PSI-Transformer
Jun 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:4 reviews, 2 PRs, 52 pushes in 5 months
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