about the author

Tagir Valeev is a technical lead at JetBrains GmbH. He belongs to the Java team, which is responsible for Java language support in IntelliJ IDEA. His primary interest is static analysis and code refactoring. Tagir designed and developed many code inspections for IntelliJ IDEA’s built-in static analyzer. Previously, Tagir contributed to FindBugs, which is a Java bytecode static analysis tool. Tagir has 15 years of experience writing commercial software in Java and 10 years of experience in the field of static analysis. He holds a PhD in computer science (2006) and the title Java Champion (2020).