Welcome!
I’m Igor Tkanov, a technical leader with over a decade in B2B SaaS and data/AI products, with a strong focus on practical gen AI and cloud security. I’ve led engineering teams across e-commerce, workforce management, real estate, network infrastructure, and aviation.
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How I can help
My work sits at the intersection of delivery, security, and people: helping teams ship reliable, secure software faster, and designing AI-powered features that are safe, maintainable, and actually useful. I’m comfortable both in the code and in the boardroom – turning business goals into roadmaps, metrics, and clear expectations for engineers.
Partnering with startups and scale-ups as an advisor and hands-on builder, I help improve delivery, security without burning people out − feel free to reach out.
Certifications
I care about keeping systems both fast and safe. A few of the certifications that shape how I think about security and modern engineering:
As a CISSP, I help companies design secure, resilient systems that fit how engineers really build software. That means security by design in architecture and code, practical GDPR/ISO 27001 alignment, and better collaboration between security and engineering instead of having security as a blocker.
With GIAC Cloud Security Automation (GCSA), I focus on making cloud security automatic: built into CI/CD, containers/Kubernetes, and infrastructure as code through automated checks and policies instead of after-the-fact, costly fixes. The result is cloud operations that are easier to run, easier to audit, and much harder to break.
The Google Cloud Generative AI Leader certificate helps make generative AI useful, safe, and production-ready: choosing sensible use cases and services, with guardrails for data, privacy, and model behavior so AI features stay practical, compliant, and helpful rather than risky experiments.
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Interested in working together?
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