Dmitry Jemerov
Nice to meet you!
I'm Dmitry Jemerov, a linguist and software developer originally from St.Petersburg, Russia, now living in Leiden in the Netherlands.
I've spent most of my career working at JetBrains. I started as the lead developer of Omea, a now-defunct information management tool built with .NET. Then I moved to work on IntelliJ IDEA and IntelliJ Platform-based IDEs. Among other things, I was the original creator and lead developer of PyCharm.
I also spent a year at Google, working on Cloud Source Repositories, Cloud Debugger and other projects related to developer tooling on Google Cloud Platform.
After I returned to JetBrains, I spent some time as the lead of the team working on the IntelliJ IDEA plugin for Kotlin, and then switched to product management and product leadership roles. My final project at JetBrains was the leadership of the ML team, where I managed the development and release of the AI Assistant plugin.
I left JetBrains in the end of August 2023, and I'm now studying linguistics at the Leiden University. You can read more about how this goes in my blog.
Some of my personal projects include:
- Etymograph (2023-now), a linguistic database and rule execution engine;
- Paternosters (2023-now), a database of historical Lord's Prayer translations;
- inkdc (2021), an incomplete decompiler for Ink;
- Structorian (2009), a flexible viewer for structured binary data;
- Syndirella (2003), a Windows RSS reader;
- Infinity Explorer (2000), a data viewer for Infinity Engine-based games.
My Book
I'm one of the authors of Kotlin in Action, an introduction book on Kotlin. The 2nd edition of the book came out recently, but I wasn't involved in it.
Videos and Interviews
If you're curious to learn more about me, here are some interviews where I talk about myself and my work:
- Programming Languages Under the Hood: The Godfather of Kotlin (2023, Russian) - a large interview covering my background and my role in the development of Kotlin;
- Delivering Nice and Neat Results (2022, English) - an interview of the company blog, covering some of my background and work responsibilities;
- Creating The Best Programming Language: The Story of Kotlin (2021, English) - a documentary made by JetBrains mentioning my role in the creation of Kotlin;
- No Slides (2015, Russian) - a large interview covering my work at JetBrains and at Google.
Conference Presentations
I've made a fair amount of conference presentations over the years. Here are some of them:
- Dogfooding Developer Productivity: Development Process at JetBrains (2022, English) - covers the development process of the IntelliJ department at JetBrains;
- What We Mean When We Talk About Developer Productivity (2021, English) - covers some of the challenges that I see in my role as a product manager for JetBrains IDEs;
- From Renamer Plugin to Polyglot IDE (2013, English) - covers the history and the development process of IntelliJ IDEA.
My Development Activity
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