Summary
Igor Tkachenko is a seasoned software engineering leader with about 13 years in development and nine years in management, currently heading delivery and portfolio management for a major EPAM account in Ukraine. He combines deep hands-on technical experience in .NET, microservices, and financial systems with proven delivery skills across fixed-price, release-heavy, and risk-sensitive projects. Igor has built and governed teams up to 180 people, driving staffing strategy, P&L, succession planning, and location-level continuous improvement while acting as the ultimate escalation point for delivery and resource issues. A longtime practitioner of Scrum and XP, he frequently fosters engineering excellence through mentoring, training, and committee leadership within EPAM. Notably, his background spans both L3 support and complex release orchestration, giving him a rare blend of operational rigor and architecture-level thinking.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
English