JUG Ru Group

Pasha is a speaker and developer for the Big Data Tools team at JetBrains and the author of the Kotlin API for Apache Spark. In the past, he has worked in almost every IT position, from tech support to manager and data engineer. He loves talking to people about anything, but particularly he loves talking about IT. He's a Kotlin fan.

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Vitaly graduated from the Faculty of Physics of St. Petersburg State University. He taught at various universities, including St. Petersburg State University, HSE, and ITMO, for more than 15 years before going to work at Odnoklassniki, where he worked on big data analysis. In 2017, he joined JetBrains to create tools that help data engineers in their daily work. He was a speaker on Joker and SmartData.

Producer @ JUG Ru Group, organizes the largest conferences for developers in Russia. In the last 6 years Alexey's team arranged more than 50 conferences. Alexey has a very different background: from Software Engineer @ Oracle (JCK, Java Platform Group) to DevRel @ Odnoklassiniki.

Igor is a Ph.D. in theoretical physics and mathematics and a tall guy. Igor identifies himself as a pragmatic engineer with a strong technical background and is currently a specialist in machine learning and data analysis in the personalization group of the Lamoda R&D department.

Former C# developer, for the last 6 years she has been worked with various data storage. Now she's a Data Engineering Tech Lead at Dodo Engineering and co-organizer of DE or DIE meetup. Focus: database engines, data processing optimization, data modeling.

Develops DWH at JetBrains. Developed recommender systems, a face recognition library, and drones. Loves St. Petersburg and languages.

Oleg works on enterprise Java web apps for 10 years already, his primary specialization is E-Government information systems in Public Administration. Today he is employed by JetBrains. Prior to joining JRG Oleg was working at Sberbank Technology where he was solving architectural problems and research in the field of automated business process management systems. And many things prior to STB like gosuslugi.ru (central e-government portal in Russia), Integrated Electronic Medical Record (central medical portal), information analysis and emergency calls system for Russian citizens, The IUPAT Integrated Member Services information system in the USA, MMORPG games at Playtox, Flussonic streaming media server and StarView Operational Intelligence platform (JVM-based programming language and IDE).

Graduated from St. Petersburg State University in 2004, got a PhD degree in the field of the formal logical methods in 2007. Spent almost 9 years in outsourcing without losing contact with the university and research community. Big data analysis at Odnoklassniki became for Dmitry an unique chance to combine theoretical knowledge and scientific foundation with the development of real and popular products. And this chance he gladly took advantage of by coming there in 2011. Joined Sber team in 2019.

After graduating and earning his Ph.D. degree in Physics at St. Petersburg State Technical University back in 2009 Kirill has been working at software development companies such as Borland and Jetbrains. In 2012 Kirill became a co-founder and CTO of Segmento, a company that runs high-performance personalized on-line ad campaigns using an in-house developed advertisement platform (DSP) and big data management platform (DMP). Kirill is responsible for all the technology-related areas at Segmento, such as architecture and code quality, stability, and scalability of services under ultra-high load, big data processing and governance, machine learning, and cybersecurity.

Works in the Data Engineering team at Dodo Engineering. She has a great experience in development: Daria has gone from developer and team lead to head of the programming department. She wants the world of data engineering to become as comfortable as the world of programming.