Gary the Architect

Igor “Gary” Irkho — Principal Architect

My career has put me in some demanding rooms — government, the military, universities on three continents, systems I built and ran. The fuller account is in my CV; for the ideas that drive me professionally, see my address.

The Opplet project is the jewel among those rooms. This is why.

Somewhere in the middle of those formal and informal roles, I fell in love with IT — with building the systems myself, not just managing the people who do. The trouble is that my most significant work, for an anonymous investment group, was done under strict non-disclosure. I am proud of it, but I cannot put it on a table and point to it.

Opplet is the work product I can point at; it is also the place where my creativity has no borders. Working for someone else, I rarely chose the scope; my reach stopped where the contract said it stopped. In Opplet I own the whole stack, from the metal to the page you are reading. I designed the enclave’s zones, the identity and automation beneath them, and the way it all holds together, and I keep it running. It is open and inspectable on purpose: a complete system anyone can examine, run, or fork.

That is also why I built it the way I did — to set a standard for everyone who joins. My goal is for future participants to do exactly what I did: build something real, test their skills against it, and walk away with work they can show the world without a caveat. The proof is the running thing, not the account of it.

It is where my two career paths finally meet. The builder and the teacher turn out to be the same person — and Opplet is something I can both run and walk anyone through.

If you want to know what I can do, you don’t have to take my word for it. The doors are open.