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Alina Komissarova, Coordinator of JetBrains Educational Projects who is based in Novosibirsk, Russia, interviewed her fellow Siberian Tagir Valeev, Java Tech Lead in IntelliJ IDEA. They talked about what life and work are like for someone who feels the never-ceasing drive to develop, share his knowledge, and learn Japanese.

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 at JetBrains You've been creating user interfaces at JetBrains for almost 10 years. How did you wind up working in UI/UX? I guess it happened naturally. JetBrains uses a lot of dogfooding, which is

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

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 Products and Educational Content Project-Based Learning Journey to Product Management Maria Lebedeva: I want to begin with the fact that you and me, we both followed the same path: we went to the Physic

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 believe is an important place to be for a developer advocate. We are the bridge between the product teams and users. Okay, then being in the middle, how do you advocate developers' needs when thousands of

“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 the specifics of the job. Olga Berdnikova, UI/UX designer at JetBrains First of all, let’s sort out the terminology. I’m talking about the roles of a UX architect and a UI designer. As I see it,

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 over time, we formed a team as part of the Marketing department. We started with product surveys, market research, and sales analysis—small-scale tasks that addressed our colleagues' ad hoc requests