About

Welcome!

Igor looking at a sea with hands wide open

I’m Igor Tkanov, a hands-on technical leader with over a decade in B2B SaaS and data/AI products. I make practical technical decisions, cut through ambiguity, and ship software.

My recent focus is practical gen AI and cloud security. Earlier roles spanned e-commerce, workforce management, real estate, network infrastructure, and aviation.

How I can help

I help startups and scale-ups ship better software faster. That can mean improving engineering flow, building practical AI features, or making cloud/security work fit how engineers actually build.

My role moves between code, product, and leadership: turning business goals into technical direction, roadmaps, metrics, and clear expectations for engineers.

Certifications

I care about keeping systems fast and safe. Recent certifications that shape how I think about security and modern engineering:

CISSP
(ISC²)

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.

GIAC Cloud Security Automation certificate

GIAC Cloud Security Automation (GIAC)

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.

Generative AI Leader
(Google Cloud)

The Google Cloud Generative AI Leader certificate helps make practical gen 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.