Maria started her career at JetBrains as an ML Researcher in the AI Agents and Planning research lab, where she studied local agent capabilities and developed benchmarks and evaluation methods for agentic systems. About a year ago, she joined the newly created Koog team and continued her journey as a Software Developer for the AI Agents Framework, also taking on support for the Kotlin MCP sdk. Combining both her research and development expertise, Maria is passionate about building and improving new agents for JetBrains and beyond.