About

Evgeny Igumnov

Founder/CTO and principal software developer building Rust, AI assistant, document, backend, and high-load systems from architecture to production.

I work at the intersection of company building and deep technical execution: product architecture, local-first AI assistant runtimes, backend services, infrastructure, deployment automation, and hands-on production code.

Evgeny Igumnov
Astana, Kazakhstan Founder / CTO / Principal Software Developer
evgeny@relayna.com Telegram @ievkz GitHub LinkedIn Habr Reddit Books Instagram
10M MyLivePage users
20M+ page views per day
25+ years software engineering
Rust / AI current technical focus

Current focus

Technical leadership with hands-on execution.

Founder / CTO

Building Relayna as an AI assistant platform across desktop, web, cloud, and mobile.

Principal Developer

Designing and shipping Rust, backend, document, AI tooling, and infrastructure systems.

High-load experience

Scaled MyLivePage to millions of users with practical performance engineering and operations.

Experience

Built products, platforms, and production systems.

Relayna Inc, USA March 2026 - Present

CTO / CEO / Principal Software Developer

Founded and led development of Relayna, an AI assistant platform for desktop, web, cloud, and mobile.

Designed and built the core architecture with Electron, React, Rust, Axum, SQLx, MySQL, WebSocket, REST API, Docker, and React Native/Expo.

Implemented local-first AI assistant runtime, multi-step reasoning, tool execution, background tasks, provider-based LLM integration, tracing, and production infrastructure.

Jetico, Finland September 2020 - Present

Principal Rust Developer

Work in an AI-assisted development workflow using Codex and Claude Code while maintaining production-level quality standards.

Implemented an adaptive open-set text-classification training pipeline in Rust using Candle/CUDA with threshold calibration, reproducible JSON bundles, and evaluation tooling.

Developed document search/indexing systems and activation license services using Rust, Actix, Tokio, SeaORM, SQLite, Diesel, and MySQL.

Jetico, Finland September 2014 - August 2020

Principal Java / Scala / Angular Developer

Built and maintained enterprise systems including Jetico Central Manager, TotalWipeOut server, Jetico Messenger server, and License Generator.

Worked with Scala, Java, TypeScript, Spring, Hibernate, Akka, Slick, Angular, Docker, and Kubernetes.

MyLivePage, USA January 2007 - August 2014

Founder / Senior PHP Developer / High-load Expert

Managed and built the company departments, developed the core CMS, and optimized the platform for high-load environments.

Scaled the website builder to 10 million users and more than 20 million page views per day using Linux, PHP, Lighttpd, MySQL, and Memcached.

Geocad, Russia February 2001 - December 2006

Principal Java Developer

Worked on backend development, database structure design, performance tuning, and technical architecture.

Le Petit Fute, France September 1996 - January 2001

Perl Developer

Developed websites and designed database structures.

Education

Master of Computer Science

Novosibirsk State Technical University, Faculty of Automation and Computer Engineering, Software Development. 1996-2002.