Ihor Katkov is a founding engineer and engineering leader with a decade of experience building low-latency, high-reliability trading and financial systems across startups and scale-ups in the Netherlands. He architects event-driven, agentic systems that process real financial transactions while balancing speed, scale, security, and regulatory constraints. Previously he led teams that delivered sub-18-microsecond tick-to-order market-making, 99.99% uptime trading platforms, and multi-hundred-million-euro daily position managers while driving infrastructure cost efficiencies. Ihor combines hands-on systems design with strategic technical ownership—treating early-stage products like his own company to accelerate zero-to-one delivery. An Elixir and real-time systems enthusiast, he also founded and scaled a remote agency and organized community meetups, reflecting a blend of technical depth and people-first leadership.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's degree Mechanical Engineering at Admiral Makarov National University of Shipbuilding
Contributions:23 PRs, 16 pushes, 27 branches in 1 year 9 months
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