Boris Yakimov

Introduction

Introducing Boris, a seasoned Co-Founder & Principal Solutions Architect with over a decade of experience in the information technology industry. A cloud architect at heart, Boris specializes in designing scalable, resilient, and secure infrastructure on AWS, turning complex technical requirements into well-architected solutions.

Throughout his career, he has built deep expertise across cloud architecture, DevOps, and infrastructure automation. He designs systems that are cost-efficient, highly available, and built to scale, applying AWS best practices and Well-Architected principles to help clients modernize and optimize their environments. His command of infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, containerization, and cloud-native design allows him to architect end-to-end solutions that stand up in production.
Boris has also built and led AWS-focused teams from the ground up, growing skilled groups of cloud engineers and architects who deliver production-grade solutions at scale. As a communicator and technical leader, he guides teams through architectural decisions and mentors engineers, ensuring the systems he designs are matched by the teams that build and run them.
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Boris Yakimov
Co-Founder & Principal Solutions Architect
14.08.2026
Reading time: 15 mins.
As IPv6 adoption continues to grow, organizations running workloads on AWS increasingly need networking architectures that can support both IPv4 and IPv6 traffic. While AWS provides native IPv6 capabilities, integrating...
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Boris Yakimov
Co-Founder & Principal Solutions Architect
05.06.2026
Reading time: 4 mins.
The ITGix AWS Landing Zone continues to evolve with a clear goal: enabling organizations to build secure, compliant, and scalable AWS environments with less operational overhead. Across recent releases (v1.2.0...
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Boris Yakimov
Co-Founder & Principal Solutions Architect
20.03.2023
Reading time: 4 mins.
We were contacted by the financial branch of a German automotive company to set up a multi-environment AWS infrastructure that would facilitate proxying financial transactions. We were contacted by the...
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Boris Yakimov
Co-Founder & Principal Solutions Architect
25.05.2018
Reading time: 7 mins.
WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF A TOOL LIKE SALTSTACK AND A BETTER QUESTION IS-WHAT PROBLEM DOES IT SOLVE? The two main purposes of SaltStack are configuration management and remote execution. You have probably heard of or...
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Boris Yakimov
Co-Founder & Principal Solutions Architect
24.05.2017
Reading time: 6 mins.
Introduction to Docker If you have been following the “cloud” trends you probably have heard of Docker. It is an open-source implementation of the LXC (Linux Containers) used for packaging...
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