From TUM to Team Lead: A Journey in Software Development and JetBrains
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Graduation from TUM leads to building developer tooling with the Roslyn compiler and a master’s thesis on exception handling at Carnegie Mellon, then joining JetBrains via an AppCode test task that required a small interpreter and editor; career path moves from developer to senior to team lead of Kotlin Multiplatform tooling, surviving a midstream rewrite and implementing coordination across teams, using 20% project time for exploration, shipping Fleet AI features, and recruiting aggressively with ~150 open positions.
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