# Kirill Skrygan (slim)

> Kirill Skrygan is CEO at JetBrains. Junie CLI and YouTrack on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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CEO, JetBrains.

Kirill Skrygan has been chief executive of JetBrains since 1 February 2024, when he took over from Maxim Shafirov.

## What Kirill builds

- [Junie CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/junie.md), graded D, 53.2/100, in Agent harnesses. JetBrains' coding agent for the terminal, run as `junie`. It plans, edits files, runs commands and calls MCP servers, with an action allowlist, one-shot headless runs with JSON output for CI and an ACP mode for editors. CEO, JetBrains, researched 2026-10-28.
- [YouTrack](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/youtrack.md), graded D, 49.9/100, in Project & task management. YouTrack is JetBrains' issue tracker and project management tool, with a knowledge base, helpdesk and time tracking. Agents reach each YouTrack Cloud or Server instance through its REST API and a built-in remote MCP server at `/mcp`. CEO, JetBrains, researched 2026-10-28.

## Works with

- [Eugene Belyaev](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/eugene-belyaev/), Co-founder, JetBrains
- [Sergey Dmitriev](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/sergey-dmitriev/), Co-founder, JetBrains, and its CEO until 2012
- [Valentin Kipyatkov](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/valentin-kipyatkov/), Co-founder, JetBrains
- [Elena Pishkova](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/elena-pishkova/), Head of marketing for Data Products, YouTrack and Hub
- [Maxim Mazin](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/maxim-mazin/), Early YouTrack developer from 2006; led YouTrack and Hub development in 2015

## Questions

### Who is Kirill Skrygan?

Kirill Skrygan has been chief executive of JetBrains since 1 February 2024, when he took over from Maxim Shafirov.

### What does JetBrains, JetBrains s.r.o. make?

Anchor Terminal lists Junie CLI and YouTrack from JetBrains, JetBrains s.r.o..

### How are Kirill's tools graded?

Junie CLI is graded D, 53.2 out of 100; YouTrack is graded D, 49.9 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JetBrains
- https://junie.jetbrains.com/
- https://junie.jetbrains.com/blog/
- https://junie.jetbrains.com/docs/junie-cli.html
- https://www.jetbrains.com/
- https://blog.jetbrains.com/youtrack/2026/10/ai-on-your-terms-how-we-see-ai-in-youtrack/
- https://blog.jetbrains.com/youtrack/2026/06/youtrack-helpdesk-now-includes-customer-groups/
- https://nl.linkedin.com/in/elenapishkova
- https://bugtrackers.io/interview-youtrack-maxim-mazin
- https://de.linkedin.com/in/maximmazin
- https://www.jetbrains.com/youtrack/
- https://www.jetbrains.com/youtrack/support/
- https://youtrack-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/17694551714578-Not-able-to-submit-a-request
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_Kipyatkov

These are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched.