Igor Askarov is a seasoned software engineering leader with 15 years of experience building highly reliable, scalable platforms for large consumer and enterprise products. He has led engineering organizations at Yandex.Market, OZON and Citymobil, driving SRE practices, capacity planning, unified observability and multi-datacenter architectures that kept services running through peak loads and rapid growth. As a CTO and department head he repeatedly transformed long-running projects into production-ready, low-incident systems while formalizing SDLC, CI/CD and hiring pipelines that scaled teams from single digits to 150+ engineers. His technical toolkit spans Golang, Java, Python, Kubernetes and PostgreSQL, and he pairs hands-on architecture decisions with three-year technology roadmaps tied to business outcomes. Notably, he introduced measurable SLO-driven reliability and resilience engineering practices across large teams, making reliability a reproducible engineering competency rather than an ad-hoc effort. Based in Moscow, he combines startup agility with enterprise-grade process and regulatory experience (including ФСТЭК/PCI DSS compliance).
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer, Information and Measurement Technologies, Engineer, Information and Measurement Technologies at Moscow Power Engineering Institute (Technical University)
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