The big question I like to ask is, “What can we create that would be helpful to a million of people?”

We are driven by innovation. By fostering the freedom to test new ideas, our annual Hackathon brings about change that can echo throughout the whole of JetBrains. Check out the results of our 9th JetBrains Hackathon to see what the teams have created this year!

Anna Kutarba, RubyMine Team Lead, interviewed her JetBrains colleague Konstantin Bulenkov, UI Team Lead and the person behind JetBrains Mono, Darcula, JetBrains Runtime, and the Toolbox App. Konstantin shared his insights about innovating in areas where no more innovations were thought possible, inspiring teammates, and making products that are used by millions. Konstantin Bulenkov, UI Team Lead

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 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

<< 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

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