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Kotlin Professional Certificate by JetBrains – Now on LinkedIn Learning

JetBrains has partnered with LinkedIn Learning to offer the Kotlin Professional Certificate. This is a structured learning path that covers the full scope of modern software development – from Kotlin essentials all the way to building full-stack, multiplatform applications for mobile, desktop, web, and backend environments.

Who it’s for

This certification is designed for developers with basic programming knowledge who want to pick up Kotlin and explore multiplatform development. Whether you’re coming from Java, Python, C, or another language, this program will give you insight into what Kotlin can do across the full development landscape. If you are a mobile developer who wants to stop writing things twice, a backend developer curious about Kotlin’s server-side capabilities, or a generalist who wants to ship on multiple platforms without fracturing your codebase, this is for you.

What the learning path covers

The certification includes four courses structured to guide you along an intuitive path:

Kotlin Essential Training: Functions, Collections, and I/O starts with the fundamentals – how Kotlin handles functions, how its collection APIs work, and how to interact with files and I/O, as well as core Kotlin syntax. If you are coming from Java, a lot of this will feel familiar but cleaner. If you are coming from elsewhere, this is where Kotlin’s expressiveness starts to click.

Kotlin Essential Training: Object-Oriented and Async Code goes deeper into OOP principles and asynchronous programming in Kotlin. The course introduces distinctive Kotlin features such as sealed classes, data classes, and extension functions, while showing how coroutines make async programming more readable. This course builds the foundation you need before getting started with multiplatform.

Kotlin Multiplatform Development teaches you how to write shared business logic once and deploy it across multiple platforms – mobile (Android and iOS), web, desktop, and backend. You’ll learn about the architecture that makes this possible, as well as how to structure a KMP project, what can and can’t be shared, and how to make the boundaries between platforms work for you rather than against you.

Exploring Ktor With Kotlin and Compose Multiplatform brings it all together. Ktor is JetBrains’ own framework for building asynchronous servers and clients in Kotlin; Compose Multiplatform extends Jetpack Compose to desktop and web. Together, they let you build full-stack applications with a genuinely unified approach. This course is the practical capstone – you leave with experience actually building something, not just learning concepts.

Access

The Kotlin Professional Certificate is available on LinkedIn Learning through a LinkedIn Premium subscription, which includes a one-month free trial for eligible users. Many organizations and universities also provide LinkedIn Learning access to their employees and students, and some public libraries offer free access with a library card as well, so it’s worth checking with your employer or institution.

The certificate

In total, the certification takes about 11 hours spread across the four courses. You’ll work in IntelliJ IDEA, the industry’s leading IDE, gaining practical knowledge that’s essential for your career. By the end, you’ll be able to build complete multiplatform applications from a shared codebase. 

Complete all four courses and pass the final exam to earn your Kotlin Professional Certificate by JetBrains. You’ll be able to download it, share it, and add it directly to your LinkedIn profile to showcase your Kotlin and multiplatform development skills to recruiters and hiring managers.

Let us know how you like the courses, and be sure to share your certificate and tag us on LinkedIn.

We’re excited to see what you build with Kotlin!