Ivan Fofanov
VP of Technology at Goldman Sachs | Identity & Access Management | Zero Trust & Service Identity | Building Secure Infrastructure at Scale
- Role
- Vice President of Technology at Goldman Sachs
- Location
- Tampa, FL, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Ivan Fofanov
I build secure platforms that enterprises trust with their most critical operations.20+ years of software engineering, architecture, and technical leadership — from telecom to investment banking to building Goldman Sachs\' core identity and access management layer.Right now I lead the platform that secures how every service communicates across the firm: tens of thousands of managed service identities, dozens of millions of certificates issued daily, spanning cloud and on-premise environments. I built it from scratch, drove adoption firm-wide, and operate it at the highest reliability standards.Before that, I spent years solving hard engineering problems at enterprise scale: re-architecting systems for orders-of-magnitude performance gains, leading global engineering teams across multiple countries, modernizing legacy platforms into cloud-native architectures, and shipping critical financial systems with zero missed deadlines.What ties it all together: I\'ve been a hands-on builder at every stage. I design the architecture, write the critical code, build the team, and drive the product to operational excellence. Software engineer first, technical leader always.I\'m now deeply focused on the intersection of identity, autonomous execution, and AI security — where I believe the next major wave of enterprise risk is emerging.Open to conversations about securing AI agents, non-human identity management, and how enterprises will govern autonomous execution at scale.
Experience
Vice President of Technology
Dec 2017 — Present
Built the firm\'s core service identity platform from scratch — the system that secures how every application communicates across cloud and on-premise environments. Grew adoption from zero to tens of thousands of managed service identities, with the platform now issuing dozens of millions of certificates daily. Designed and operated the system at 99.95% reliability, pioneered cloud-native architecture within the firm, and led internal engineering conferences on security, resilience, and operational excellence.
Education
ITMO University
Master's degree, Computer Science
2002 — 2008
Skills
- Continuous Integration
- Gigaspaces
- Apache Kafka
- Maven
- Html5
- Xml
- Jms
- Angularjs
- Oracle
- Nodejs
- Json
- Junit
- Gherkin
- Jsp
- Agile-Менеджмент
- Subversion
- Hazelcast
- Agile Methodologies
- Antlr
- Spring Integration
- Java 8
- Java
- Scrum
- Devops
- Git
- Mongodb
- Java Enterprise Edition
- Test Automation
- Cucumber
- Spring
- Jira
- Jenkins
- Sql
- Hibernate
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