Igor Shikin

Igor Shikin is a Principal Software Engineer at Okta, where responsibilities include developing and maintaining software in the infrastructure resiliency domain, analyzing infrastructure-related incidents, and engineering GCP GKE infrastructure to facilitate multi-cloud capabilities. Prior to Okta, Igor served as a Senior Manager of Software Engineering at Capital One, successfully transforming the Feature Platform and significantly improving feature development efficiency and incident reduction. Previous roles include Lead Software Engineer and Senior Software Engineer at Capital One, where Igor led engineering teams and developed multiple enterprise solutions. Earlier experience includes serving as a Solution Architect at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and a Senior Software Engineer and Tech Lead at the International Finance Corporation, focusing on document management systems and enterprise architectures. Igor holds a PhD Candidate position in Computer Science / Artificial Intelligence and a Master of Science in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Lomonosov Moscow State University.