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JetBrains was founded in 2000 in Prague under the name IntelliJ Software by three Russian software developers: Sergey Dmitriev, Valentin Kipyatkov, and Eugene Belyaev. The company's first product was IntelliJ Renamer, a tool for code refactoring in Java.
Kirill Skrygan became CEO of JetBrains effective the 1st of February 2024, replacing Maxim Shafirov. Before Shafirov, Oleg Stepanov and Shafirov had shared leadership from 2012, when founding CEO Sergey Dmitriev stepped down.
JetBrains created the Kotlin programming language in 2011, naming it after Kotlin Island near St. Petersburg. Google declared Kotlin its preferred language for Android development at Google I/O 2019, and Kotlin Multiplatform reached stable status with Kotlin 1.9.20 in November 2023.
In 2021, The New York Times reported that unknown parties may have used JetBrains' TeamCity software as a pathway in the SolarWinds hack, described as potentially the biggest breach of United States networks in history. JetBrains denied any involvement, stating in a press release that it had not been contacted by any government or security agency and had not taken part or been involved in the attack in any way.
JetBrains reported 11.4 million recurring active users in its 2023 highlights, following 15.9 million users reported in 2022. The company has never raised external capital and reported $200 million in EBITDA in 2020.
ReSharper is a Visual Studio extension for .NET developers first released by JetBrains in 2004. It has accumulated over 2.5 million downloads, making it the most popular extension on the Visual Studio Marketplace, and was a key revenue source for JetBrains in its early years.