Ike Kurghinyan
Director Of Engineering at Mosaic Modeler
Yerevan, Armenia
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolIke Kurghinyan is a Director of Engineering with 11 years of experience building high-impact teams and scaling engineering organizations, currently leading Marketing engineering at Toptal. He’s known for turning around failing teams quickly, restoring morale and delivery while driving strategic hiring and operational excellence across 50+ engineers. A hands-on technologist, Ike has delivered multimillion-dollar efficiency gains—like a deployment orchestrator that increased cadence 6x and saved $2.4M annually—and led major migrations and permissions overhauls. He founded Mosaic Modeler to democratize systems modeling with a custom-trained AI assistant, blending product intuition with entrepreneurial drive. His background spans secure infrastructure work (Cloud HSM networks for government and enterprise) to front-end UI refinements in open-source projects, reflecting a rare mix of security, backend scale, and aesthetic attention to UX. Based in Yerevan, he pairs strong mathematical training with a track record of developing future engineering leaders.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics and Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at Russian State Technological University named after K.E. Tsiolkovsky (MATI)Process Engineer Design of aircrafts, Process Engineer Design of aircrafts at College of Space Engineering and Technology
Russian, English, Armenian
Github Skills (9)
custom-theme10
ui-design10
wordpress-themes10
front-end-development9
javascript5
darktheme5
typescript4
typescripts4
typescript-types4
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
dempfi/ayu
Mar 2019 - Dec 2021
🎨🖌 Modern Sublime Text theme
Role in this project:
UI Designer & Frontend Developer
UI Designer & Frontend DeveloperContributions:45 releases, 20 commits, 48 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Ike primarily focused on enhancing the UI of the "ayu" Sublime Text theme. Their contributions included updating and refining the theme's UI elements, such as the title bar, sidebar, and tabs. They also worked on improving the auto-completion popups and overall appearance of the theme, incorporating visual refinements for a better user experience. Furthermore, the user fixed color blends for light themes, ensuring visual consistency.
textmatelight-themesublimedark-themesublime-text-3
toptal/xene
Nov 2016 - Jul 2018
🤖 Modern library with simple API to build great conversational bots.
Contributions:38 PRs, 528 pushes, 39 branches in 1 year 8 months
apimodern-libraryconversational-botsconversationalbot
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