About me
Hello, I’m Eugene Petrenko, or Evgeny Petrenko, or Евгений Петренко. Find more at my LinkedIn Profile.
About
Founding Engineering Leader with 25+ years in IT and Software.
Agentic AI DevTools & Experience | LLMs | #LocalAI enthusiast | Consulting
With a founder’s mindset, I develop new products and bring innovative ideas to life as viable deliverables. I solve problems with founder passion at the intersection of AI, developer experience, and enterprise scale.
My primary focus is on developer tools, development productivity, coding AI, IDEs, desktop software, Local AI, and server-side/cloud. At JetBrains for over 21 years, I’ve progressed from coding ReSharper and TeamCity to founding an enterprise product suite.
IDE Services: From Zero to Enterprise Scale
Most recently: Launched IDE Services enterprise suite from zero → 500+ companies, 140K+ developers, 8-digit new recurring revenue in Year 1. The suite is available both as SaaS and on-prem, solving AI governance and developer productivity needs at company scale.
IDE Services became the foundation for far larger transformations across JetBrains, empowering the next wave of offerings, reshaping our go-to-market model, and driving strategic shifts in AI-enabled development.
Before IDE Services
IntelliJ Shared Indexes, JDK Downloader, and Toolbox App (started as a hackathon project, now powering enterprise IDE management), GitHosting. Delivered features for TeamCity. 42+ conference talks on Kotlin and developer productivity.
Recent Projects: Agentic AI Tooling
I build tools that let AI Agents work inside developer environments. My recent open source projects include:
- MCP Steroid — an IntelliJ MCP server with vision, OCR, and human review gates (homepage)
- Plugin Hot Reload — hot reload IntelliJ plugins without restarting the IDE
- Stevedore — GitOps deployment loop for Docker Compose on Raspberry Pi
- Roomtone — self-hosted single-room WebRTC call service
These projects combine my passion for developer tools with the emerging world of agentic AI, exploring how LLMs can leverage IDE APIs, platform indices, and development infrastructure.
The Journey
The best developer tools emerge when we combine deep technical expertise with genuine empathy for developers’ daily challenges. This balance guided my journey from ReSharper development to leading IDE Services, and now into agentic AI tooling.
Starting as a developer on ReSharper, TeamCity, Toolbox App, and Upsource, I’ve worked on projects that shape how millions of developers write code. My path evolved through Git Hosting (part of JetBrains Space) and Shared Indexes to leading IDE Services, pushing the boundaries of what developer tools can do at enterprise scale.
My passion lies at the intersection of developer productivity, AI Agents, and team empowerment. Whether it’s building MCP servers for AI coding assistants, optimizing IDE performance, deploying local LLMs, or mentoring the next generation of engineers, I’m driven by making developers’ lives better. The Toolbox App started as my hackathon and 20% project (those long evenings coding in Qt C++) and became something that now powers enterprise IDE management — proof that great things happen when technical curiosity meets persistent experimentation.
With 42+ conference talks under my belt (mostly about Kotlin and developer productivity), I’ve learned that sharing knowledge is as important as creating it.
Core expertise: Agentic AI DevTools | LLMs & Local AI | Platform Architecture | IntelliJ Platform | Kotlin (using it since before 1.0!) | MCP Servers | DevEx Innovation | Technical Strategy | B2B and Enterprise.
I’m available for consulting on AI-assisted development tooling, IntelliJ plugin development, and developer experience strategy. Feel free to reach out if you want to discuss agentic AI, IntelliJ, Kotlin, developer tools, or how to integrate LLMs into your development workflow!
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Certificate, Diplomas and Courses
Education
- 2001 - 2006 Saint Petersburg State University, the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics
- 2006 - 2009 Candidate of Sciences (similar to a Ph.D.) in computer science (subject code 05.13.11 VAK) from Saint Petersburg State University, the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics
- 2024 Stanford Graduate School of Business. Influence and Negotiation Strategies Program on-site, statement
- 2025 Stanford Graduate School of Business. Executive Program in Strategy and Organization on-site, statement
Stanford Graduate School of Business
- Influence and Negotiation Strategies Program on-site ✅ statement
- Executive Program in Strategy and Organization on-site ✅ statement
Stanford
Coursera
- Leading People and Teams Specialization by University of Michigan
✅ verified
(5 courses)- Managing Talent by University of Michigan ✅ verified
- Inspiring and Motivating Individuals by University of Michigan ✅ verified
- Leading Teams by University of Michigan ✅ verified
- Influencing People by University of Michigan ✅ verified
- Leading People and Teams Capstone by University of Michigan ✅ verified
- Machine Learning ✅
- An Introduction to Marketing ✅ statement
- Technology Commercialization, Part 1 ✅ statement
- Process Mining: Data science in Action ✅ statement
edX
- Introduction to Banking & Financial Markets - I ✅ verified
- Equity Stock Markets: Concepts, Instruments, Risks and Derivatives ✅
Other
- German Language B2 from Goethe Institute, Munich, Germany. ✅ certificate
- Media Training ✅ certificate
- Oracle Certified Professional
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More Info
My kids’ names: Alexej, Alexander, and Alisa.
Saint Petersburg, Russia is the city I grew up. I studied at Saint Petersburg State University, at the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics. I got Candidate of Sciences or Ph.D in computer science in 2009. I moved to Munich, Germany in 2011. I’m often visiting IT conferences around the world.
Support
If my open source tools or blog posts help you, consider supporting my work. Your sponsorship directly funds development of MCP Steroid, run-agent.sh, and other open source projects.