About Ivinco
Your last agency rotated people every quarter. Our longest client has worked with us for 15 years.
A team of experienced engineers, fully remote. We run production infrastructure across bare metal and cloud. Some of our client engagements are older than most startups.
2009
Founded
1 team
For code and infrastructure
15 yrs
Longest client engagement
Our story
Ivinco started in 2009 as a small team of engineers building search infrastructure on top of Sphinx. Manticore Search grew out of Sphinx in 2017, and its team is now our close partner: when a project needs it, we get fast support and custom features. We still build search, on Manticore and on other engines, and we also run Kubernetes clusters, web scraping systems and the data pipelines behind them.
We've always been remote. We've always been senior-only. We've always had the same model: one team that owns both the code and the infrastructure it runs on. No handoffs between developers and operators — because we're both.
Today we manage production systems for companies like Socialgist, SafeTraces, and SOAX. Our engineers are embedded in client Slack channels, attend their standups, and deploy code every day. Some of these engagements have lasted over a decade.
In 2026 we started wiring AI agents into the infrastructure we run: MCP servers for monitoring, logs, CI/CD and backups, and LLM features inside client products. The pattern is the same as always: a client has infrastructure they can't afford to get wrong, and they need engineers who've seen it break before.
How we work
One team, no handoffs
Our developers deploy their own code to infrastructure they manage. Zero gaps between writing and operating. The engineer who built it is the same one you call at 3am when something breaks.
Senior only
We don't hire juniors. You're not paying for anyone's learning curve.
Long engagements
Our longest-running client has worked with us for 15 years. We don't churn teams between projects. The person you talk to on day one stays your contact.
Direct communication
No account managers, no ticketing walls. You talk directly to engineers in your Slack. The CEO answers his own email.
Honest trade-offs
We tell you what doesn't work, what we haven't tested, and when the cheap option is good enough. Consultants who never say 'no' don't have your interests in mind.
Bare metal and cloud
We run both. Our own infrastructure is on Proxmox and bare-metal Kubernetes. We've done the math on AWS, GCP, and DigitalOcean. Ask us about the cost crossover point.
Leadership
You'll talk to these people directly — not through sales or account managers.
Eugene Levitin
CEO
Strategy, sales, operations
Sergey Nikolaev
CTO
Manticore Search, infrastructure architecture
Pavel Seredkin
Product Manager
Product, client delivery
Roman Monakhov
Lead Engineer / TAM
Infrastructure, client relationships
What we work with
We're stack-agnostic. We've shipped production systems in all of these.
Talk to an engineer
No discovery calls with sales reps. No pitch decks. A 30-minute conversation with someone who's built what you're trying to build.