Ivan Volovikov

Ivan Volovikov is a software engineer with over 14 years of experience. In 2006, they began their career as a Software Engineer at Online Agency where they developed a dating social network from scratch with a team that included a designer and frontend developer. In 2008, they joined SpbSoftGroup Ltd. as a Senior Software Engineer and worked on developing a health-oriented social network using Zend Framework 1 and MSSQL. In 2009, they became the Team Leader at Embria and completed and refactored essential gaming service of the social network Fotostrana. In 2010, they became Team Leader at Geometria.ru and developed processing platform for encoding audio and video for the portal Geometria.tv. In 2011, they founded and developed multiple startups as part of a hedge fund, including a payment gateway Pays.IO and a mining pool Btc.com. In 2013, they became CTO of iTransfers.com and built the development department from scratch. In 2016, they joined Scientific Games as a Lead Software Consultant and managed a Russian development team. In 2017, they joined Emirates Airlines (via TribalScale) as a Lead Software Consultant and led full-stack development of the new Emirates home page. In 2019, they became CTO & Co-Founder of Ghaya.ai and established successful communication with DHA and CDA authorities. Most recently, in 2020, they became Chief Technology Officer of Ogram and successfully launched 4 products and digitized all major company business processes.

Ivan Volovikov's education history includes a Bachelor of Computer Science from Saint Petersburg State Polytechnical University, which they obtained between 2004 and 2008. In 2019, they completed Startup School through Y Combinator, with a focus in Business/Commerce, General. In addition, they hold several certifications from Google, including Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect, Essential Cloud Infrastructure: Foundation, and Elastic Cloud Infrastructure: Scaling and Automation.