Zakhar Kaval
CLion Developer, JetBrains
About
Originally from Vitebsk, Belarus. Competitive programming hooked me at fourteen and paved the way to a CS degree at ITMO University in Saint Petersburg.
I've been at JetBrains since 2020, working on CLion. I started with the local LLVM fork — clangd and clangd-indexer — and now drive AI integration across the IDE, including JetBrains AI Assistant, Junie, and AI-powered code completion. Two summer internships after my first and second year turned into a full-time role before I even finished my bachelor's.
After relocating from Russia to Cyprus in 2022 and then to the Netherlands in 2023, I now call the NL home — together with my wife, whom I met at ITMO.
When I'm not at the keyboard, you'll find me horse riding, brewing beer, dialing in espresso, or baking.
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