Sergei Bulgakov
Software Developer at JetBrains
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolSergei Bulgakov is a pragmatic software developer with 10+ years of hands-on experience building cross-platform tooling, remote application streaming, and developer infrastructure from idea to production. At JetBrains he originated and led Projector—creating a headless server and lightweight browser/mobile clients for streaming Swing apps used by tens of thousands—and owned high-scale subsystems like the Toolbox Feed serving ~2M users. He contributes actively to open-source projects (notably JetBrains’ Projector and KorGE) across server, client, and Docker/DevOps areas, improving remote UX, geometry utilities, and container workflows. Comfortable across Kotlin, Java, C and Python, Sergei pairs systems-level understanding (including low-level rendering and window-manager-like logic) with product-minded engineering and mentoring experience. Outside work he ports legacy C++ games to Java/Kotlin and publishes personal Android apps, a sign of curiosity that often surfaces in unusual technical solutions. Based in Munich, he blends academic grounding from HSE with a persistent focus on reliability, performance and practical innovation.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Faculty of Computer Science, Applied Mathematics and Information Science Bachelor’s Programme, 7.93 / 10 (GPA; around A-), Bachelor’s Degree, Faculty of Computer Science, Applied Mathematics and Information Science Bachelor’s Programme, 7.93 / 10 (GPA; around A-) at Higher School of EconomicsHigh School, 5.0 / 5 (with honors), High School, 5.0 / 5 (with honors) at Lyceum 1557, Moscow, Russia
Russian, English, German, Ukrainian
Github Skills (41)
kotlin10
markdown10
javascript10
docker10
jvm10
game-engine10
scripting10
data-science10
awt10
dockers10
java10
javas10
script10
markdown-it10
front-end-development10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
JetBrains/projector-server
Jun 2020 - Apr 2022
Server-side library for running Swing applications remotely
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:157 reviews, 219 commits, 78 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Sergei primarily worked on the server-side components of the project, contributing features related to remote Swing application execution. They implemented changes using JitPack and Maven publishing for dependency management and project distribution. The user also addressed issues related to dialogs and special key handling, indicating a focus on improving the application's functionality and user experience. Additionally, they added support for features like touch scrolling and client-side clipboard operations, showing a focus on improving remote client usability.
server-sideswingawt
JetBrains/projector-docker
Jan 2020 - Jul 2021
Run JetBrains IDEs remotely with Docker
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:18 reviews, 96 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Sergei primarily focused on improving the project's Docker-based infrastructure and build processes. They implemented features such as adding Nginx for web serving, configuring the Docker container for interactive use, removing the container after usage, and mounting directories. Furthermore, the user refactored the build process, introduced a development Dockerfile, unified Dockerfiles and removed unnecessary dependencies. Their contributions optimized the deployment and development workflow within the Docker environment.
dockerjetbrains-idesswingawt
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