Summary
Ivan Tkatchev is a seasoned software leader with 15 years of experience building and scaling adtech and media platforms across Russia. Currently Dev Head at OMD OM Group / Annalect, he previously led product and engineering teams as Head of Rambler SSP and served as Chief Architect at Begun, grounding his leadership in deep systems and C++ expertise from earlier roles at RBC and Yandex. He combines hands-on architectural thinking with product ownership, shepherding complex real-time bidding and advertising systems from design to production. Educated at Lomonosov Moscow State University with further studies at Université de Lausanne, he blends rigorous academic training with practical delivery in high-throughput environments. Less obvious: his career shows a consistent progression from low-level systems programming to strategic product leadership, giving him fluency across both implementation details and business-facing decisions.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Université de Lausanne
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Московский Государственный Университет им. М.В. Ломоносова (МГУ) / Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU)
French, English, Russian, Chinese