# Igor Arkhipov

> Igor Arkhipov is a San Francisco-based software engineer and founding engineer at Handshake AI. His public trail runs from a 2018 applied-computer-science thesis on tweet sentiment analysis, through web development in Hamburg and Handshake's European engineering team, to the earliest code behind Handshake AI. Away from his company role, he maintains a small but active public GitHub portfolio and has long described himself as a photographer, traveler, and coffee enthusiast.

- **Role:** Founding Engineer at Handshake AI
- **Organizations:** Handshake, Handshake AI, Gpredictive GmbH
- **Education:** Bachelor of Science in Applied Computer Science, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Nayanova University, Samara
- **Known for:** Credited by colleague Markus Dücker with co-writing the first lines of code for Handshake AI., Completed a Bachelor of Science thesis in applied computer science on tweet sentiment analysis in 2018., Maintains a public GitHub portfolio that includes AI-agent tooling, Rust applications, Rails projects, and keyboard software.

## Career timeline

- **2018** — Submitted a bachelor's thesis at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences on retrieving and classifying the sentiment of tweets using data mining, text classification, computational linguistics, and machine learning.
- **Before 2023** — Worked as a web developer at Gpredictive GmbH in Hamburg.
- **2023** — Was publicly welcomed as a software engineer helping Handshake expand in Europe.
- **2025** — Handshake publicly introduced Handshake AI; colleague Markus Dücker said the project began with him and Arkhipov writing its first lines of code.
- **2026** — Listed as Founding Engineer at Handshake AI in San Francisco and represented Handshake in Datadog's Spotlight Program at its San Francisco Summit.

## Achievements

- Credited by colleague Markus Dücker with co-writing the first lines of code for Handshake AI.
- Completed a Bachelor of Science thesis in applied computer science on tweet sentiment analysis in 2018.
- Maintains a public GitHub portfolio that includes AI-agent tooling, Rust applications, Rails projects, and keyboard software.
- Selected to participate in Datadog's Spotlight Program at the San Francisco Summit as a Handshake representative.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Participated in Datadog's Spotlight Program at the company's San Francisco Summit and represented Handshake.
- **2026-09** — Continued active public development on GitHub, including the Rust-based unpin project and the Entropy keyboard application.

## Links

- Website: https://about.me/igorarkhipov
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arkhipovigor
- Twitter/X: https://www.twitter.com/IgorArkhipov
- GitHub: https://github.com/IgorArkhipov
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/igorarkhipov/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/iarkhipoff

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Last updated: 2026-09-27