Summary
Igor Tikhonin is a senior DevOps engineer with nine years focused on cloud-native infrastructure and a multi-decade background in enterprise IT, currently leading platform and automation efforts at lululemon from Canada. He blends deep Linux/UNIX expertise with hands-on experience across AWS, Azure, Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/OpenShift), Terraform, CI/CD pipelines and observability stacks to run resilient production systems. His career spans major financial and tech organizations (BMO, HOOPP, IBM, Scotiabank, Intel), where he drove infrastructure automation, containerization and secure deployment practices at scale. Known for bridging legacy systems and modern cloud platforms, he also brings a long history supporting chip-design and UNIX environments dating back to the 1990s—an uncommon depth that informs pragmatic, reliability-first solutions.
9 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics (Technical University)
Lomonosov Moscow State University