Igor Vladimirovich Sysoev is a Russian software engineer.
17 Facts About Igor Sysoev
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Igor Sysoev graduated from Bauman Moscow State Technical University in 1994.
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On 13 December 2019, Igor Sysoev was detained by the authorities concerning what has been asserted to be a copyright claim, on the basis that Igor Sysoev was an employee of Rambler in the 2000s when he wrote the early versions of Nginx.
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On 18 January 2022, it was announced that Igor Sysoev had left Nginx and F5 "to spend more time with his friends and family and to pursue personal projects".
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Igor Sysoev was born in a small town in Kazakhstan, then part of the USSR into a family of a Soviet military.
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Later his father was transferred to Alma-Ata, where Igor Sysoev lived until the age of 18.
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Igor Sysoev recalls his first program being bugged with small mistakes like confusing I and 1 that kept it from running.
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Igor Sysoev graduated from high-school in 1987 and tried to join the MGTU im.
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Grateful users kept sending in more variants of viruses, that were enrolled into new versions, but by 1992 Igor Sysoev had lost interest in updating it.
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Igor Sysoev spent half a year in the internet shop XXL.
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The development of Nginx started in 2002 after Igor Sysoev had been administering the Rambler servers, which had been running Apache, for two years, but those lacked scaling capability beyond 1000 users on a single server.
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Igor Sysoev continued posting program updates on his own website, and the users picked up support for it with documentation and help.
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Igor Sysoev recalls the principal difference with the popular Apache server - the ability to work with multiple users in a single running process, saving memory and CPU resources.
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Igor Sysoev introduced Igor to the idea of "market momentum", with the momentum being quite right to start a commercial business.
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Igor Sysoev had international ambitions right from the very beginning, both because it helped attract investments and because the product had a world appeal, while Russia's market was too small and not ready for the paid support model.
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Igor Sysoev had been staying under the radar for some time, and customers were unaware of the commercial support option.
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Igor Sysoev recalls finding his correspondence from 2011 naive, as it suggested the idea of selling technical support for an open source project.