Irina Tagintseva
Investor at Progressive Ventures
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIrina Tagintseva is an MLOps engineer and system architect with 11+ years building cloud-native platforms, automation, and large-scale infrastructure across retail and tech enterprises. She has led cloud migrations, Kubernetes-based continuous delivery platforms, and DevSecOps transformations at Gap Inc., and now designs MLOps solutions for Apple's Channel Sales & Operations. Equally comfortable in engineering and business roles, she was an early business development hire at a startup acquired by Google and has founded and advised AI-focused companies that scaled petabyte-class automation and generative AI products. As an investor she backs security and privacy-forward AI startups, and her track record includes measurable cost savings and operational resilience at global scale. A Haas School of Business alum with additional software engineering training, she blends product sensibility with deep infrastructure expertise and a history of mentoring early-career engineers. Less obvious: she pairs hands-on systems work with strategic GTM and M&A experience, making her a rare technologist who shapes both product architecture and business outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Finance, Bachelor of Science - BS Finance at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of BusinessSoftware Engineering, Software Engineering at GalvanizeBachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science at Kazakh National Technical UniversityAssociate's degree Economics, Associate's degree Economics at Santa Monica CollegeCognitive Science, Cognitive Science at Stanford University
English, Russian, Spanish
Github Skills (17)
recipe9
automation9
chef-infra8
elasticsearch8
infrastructure8
rails8
gitter8
test-kitchen8
devops8
postgresql8
cookbook7
chatbot7
command-line-tool7
chef-dk6
csv3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
irinatag/cassim-marketplace
Mar 2015 - Mar 2017
Etsy clone: Rails 4, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Pinterest-style UI.
Contributions:154 commits, 1 PR, 48 pushes in 2 years
elasticsearchpostgresqlrails
irinatag/meetup_map_oauth2
Feb 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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