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Semyon Atamas is the technical lead for JetBrains Marketplace. In this interview, he shares his story with Yungyeong Heo from the JetBrains Brand Marketing team. He talks about his job, as well as his plugin for Fortran and some interesting stories behind it.

Anna Kutarba, QA engineer for JetBrains RubyMine

Anna Kutarba is a QA Engineer for JetBrains RubyMine with a PhD in Physical and Mathematical Sciences. Learn about Anna's QA karma, her relationship with bugs, and the luck and determination that help her stay on track in this interview with Ekaterina Ivanova, a JetBrains Technical Writer and Copywriter.

Roman Prokashev, the Team Lead of Digital Marketing, shared his vision of internet marketing at JetBrains with Artem Sarkisov, a PMM for IntelliJ IDEA

Tatiana Vasilyeva, Product Manager for JetBrains Educational Products, shares her story with Maria Lebedeva, QA Engineer in the MPS project, about finding inspiration and fulfillment in her work. Tatiana Vasilyeva, Product Manager for JetBrains Educational Products Table of Contents: Journey to Product Management RubyMine A Good Release Personal Efficiency Educational Product

Anastasia Kazakova, our Product Marketing Manager for C++ tools, talks with Hadi Hariri, Team Lead in Developer Advocacy at JetBrains, about teaching people, helping, and inspiring them. Hadi Hariri, team lead in Developer Advocacy at JetBrains Being a developer advocate, are you closer to the users or to the product teams you are working with? I think we're kind of in the middle, which I

“A good day is when there’s some tangible result at the end when you’ve completed a task or a part of it”: An interview with Olga Berdnikova, a UI/UX designer at JetBrains. One rule for a good interview is: ask the questions you're interested in. Anna Gasparyan, the Team Lead for the IntelliJ IDEA Technical Writing team, asked Olga Berdnikova about everything she wanted to know about UX design and

Interviews

Kotlin Developer Advocate Eugene Petrenko talked with Maria Antropova, Head of the JetBrains Marketing Research department, about her work, her team, their current tasks, and future plans. Your team has been around for quite a while. How did you start out and what kinds of research do you do? It was back in 2012, when I came to the ReSharper team as an analyst. As more analysts joined me

In the eight years Natalia Chisler has been with JetBrains, the number of staff has exploded from 120 to over 800 working across 6 distributed offices. JetBrains software is used by millions of developers worldwide, and many of them dream of joining a JetBrains team to help improve the professional tools for themselves and their peers. So what does it take to become a part of JetBrains? Do you eve

Anastasia Kazakova, our Product Marketing Manager for C++ tools, talks with Sergey Coox about controlled chaos, internal competition, and keeping 90 colleagues happy at work. Q: Hi Sergey! You lead the .NET Department at JetBrains. How big is your department and what products does it work on? According to the latest ‘census,’ we’re 90-strong. We work on ReSharper – our Visual Studio extensio

Anna is a technical writers' team lead at JetBrains. In this interview, she let me look under the hood of our technical writing. Online documentation is one of the pillars of our connection with developers, and Anna is dedicated to making it even better and more user-friendly. Q: Anna, how long have you been working for JetBrains? What background do technical writers normally have? I’ve bee

Education

<< Read the previous post from this series Start from the beginning of this epic journey >> Projects So the final entry of this project, is, in fact, going to talk about projects. Starting a project for yourself to try and use all your new found programming knowledge is the perfect way to push yourself to learn and practice the skills. Anyone who is going for a job as a programmer w

<< Read the previous post from this series The Journey of One Thousand Lines of Code. So that about wraps it up then. It has been quite an adventure discovering the world of computer programming and learning a new skill which I can take on into the future. I am sure that there are parts I could have done better and more efficiently, and I have a whole new respect for dedicated learners who

Adaptive Python << Read the previous post from the series Read the next post in this series>> Now comes the really fun part, putting all the things that have been learned over the past 5 months into practice. It should be a nice final finish to the process of learning how to program as we can see what we know and test out what we have learned, but also see where there are still ga

Problem-solving strategies << Read the previous post from the series Read the next post in the series >> So we are really now starting to embark on a whole new discipline that comes with programming. Logic and problem-solving. We now have enough of how and what we can do with with the code behind us that we can work out how to use the code, what different things do in the code, o

Backstage

Update: Read the update from 2019 about our code-generated art being used to create original artworks. Crafting tools and making them better is human nature. JetBrains has built its business on this tradition, by creating tools which developers love using daily and which automate the routine parts of their jobs. Almost 2 years ago, we shared a story of how we create artwork at JetBrains, along wi

Behind every JetBrains product, there are numerous teams: developers, product marketing (PMM), technical writers, designers and many others. Each team has established their own workflows to match their goals, working habits, and the team profile. In an earlier post, we described how the YouTrack team had been cooking Scrum and had managed to transform this methodology to find the most balanced app

Six years ago, the YouTrack team started developing an Agile board in YouTrack (our issue tracker and agile project management tool). At JetBrains, dogfooding is one of the key principles of product development. So while building a tool for our customers that conformed to the main principles of an agile framework, we knew we had to experience Agile firsthand. That’s when we decided to adopt Scrum.

Update: Read the update from 2018 about our approach to creating product artwork. Most of us who write code treat it as something special, more than just a bunch of characters stored in files. A lot of experience, thought and trial and error is put into it. For many, coding is creating and the code is their art. Some believe software development is rather art than science. And while we can't se