Ihor Katkov
Founding Engineer at neno
Randstad, Netherlands
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Top SchoolIhor 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.
11 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
Dutch, Ukrainian, English
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Github Skills (83)
automated-trading10
apollo10
backend10
slf4j10
network-interface10
webstorm10
intellij-plugin10
rubymine10
java10
absinthe10
elixir-mix10
appcode10
pycharm10
clion9
jetbrains9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ihorkatkov/beetle
Jun 2021 - Mar 2022
Higly customizable (and by default fast) rate-limiter for Elixir, with pluggable storage backends
Contributions:27 commits, 10 PRs, 19 pushes in 9 months
elixir
ihorkatkov/ihorkatkov.github.io
Jun 2023 - Jun 2026
Contributions:35 PRs, 33 pushes, 31 branches in 3 years
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