Igor Vladimirovich Sysoev (Russian: ????? ???????????? ??????) is a Russian software engineer.
In October 2004 he released the nginx Web server, reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTP cache software and founded NGINX, Inc.
Sysoev was born in 1970 and grew up in Almaty, Kazakhstan, at the time called Alma-Ata in Kazakh SSR.
Sysoev graduated from Bauman Moscow State Technical University in 1994.
Since graduation he has lived in Moscow and currently serves as Chief Technical Officer at NGINX, Inc.
On December 13 2019, Igor was detained by the authorities in relation to what has been asserted to be a copyright claim.