Summary
Igor Popov is a development team lead in San Antonio with 10 years of cross-disciplinary engineering experience spanning full-stack web apps, embedded systems, and manufacturing automation. He currently leads a Rails/React team at SourceDay that builds invoice-processing software handling over $1B in annual transactions, while mentoring engineers and aligning product, support, and stakeholders. His background includes designing and deploying MES solutions, PLC-driven test fixtures, and operator UIs—bridging mechanical design, control systems, and software to streamline high-volume production. Igor’s hands-on history ranges from embedded C++ for pinball mechanisms to Python data analysis with SciPy and Jupyter, reflecting a practical blend of hardware and software fluency. He holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from UTSA and has repeatedly turned shop-floor problems into automated, data-driven systems that improved throughput and quality. Notably, he combines product-focused leadership with the ability to prototype mechanical fixtures and production software end-to-end.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of Texas at San Antonio
English, Russian