Igor Golubev
AI Systems Architect · Founder, IG Digital Lab
Sacramento, California
I build the AI systems businesses actually run on, and I run about twenty of them myself. Building websites and IT systems since 2012.
Who I am
I am Igor Golubev, founder of IG Digital Lab in Sacramento, California, and the systems architect on our team. I have been building websites and IT systems since 2012, and for the last few years the work has narrowed to one thing: taking the AI that companies bolt onto the side of a business and moving it inside the process instead.
That distinction is the whole job. Most companies end up with a chatbot somewhere and a person who has to remember to use it. What actually changes a week is a chain that runs without being remembered: the call gets answered, the details land in the CRM, the appointment goes on the calendar, the follow-up goes out, and a human only sees the parts that need judgment.
What I build
Our team ships eight kinds of work, and most projects are two or three of them at once. Custom software for the process no product on the market fits. Websites and web apps the client owns outright at the end. Mobile app development when the tool has to live on a phone. AI for calls and chat, the agents that pick up at 2am. AI workflow automation, which is the chain above. Servers and support, because something has to run underneath all of it. Devices and smart spaces, the tablets, kiosks and screens. And SEO and AEO, so a business is findable on Google and named by ChatGPT, Perplexity and AI Overviews.
I stay hands-on across all of it: the LLM integration, the voice stack, private retrieval over a client's own documents, the automation logic, and the infrastructure and CI/CD keeping it up. I would rather scope one process, put it in production and let it prove itself than sell anyone a platform.
Qualifications & credentials
I hold formal credentials on every stack I build with. Every published line below links to its own public verification page. No self-issued badges, nothing without a receipt.
98 verified credentials across AWS, Anthropic, Salesforce, Databricks, Google Cloud, Cisco, OpenAI and IBM.
100% score (25 questions) · partner-exclusive accreditation
credly.com/badges/f5c007f6…100% score (20 questions) · partner-exclusive accreditation
credly.com/badges/d12ad693…100% score (20 questions) · partner-exclusive accreditation
credly.com/badges/a4849556…Status earned through hands-on Agentblazer labs, autograded on the Trailblazer profile.
salesforce.com/trailblazer/iuo70munrzmu6s44jq85 lessons · final assessment 23/23
verify.skilljar.com/c/p5t5ocde4paq
IBMVerifiedCredly-issued badge
credly.com/badges/ae838488…View all 98 credentials by issuer
AWS (28)
Issued through Credly on 06.09.2026; every line opens its public badge page. Full wallet: credly.com/users/igor-golubev-us. Four AWS Educate lab certificates (Databases, Machine Learning Foundations, Cloud 101, Introduction to Generative AI) are issued without a public verification page, so they are not listed.
Partner accreditations (3)
- AWS Partner: Accreditation (Technical) · 100%verify →
- AWS Partner: Sales Accreditation (Business) · 100%verify →
- AWS Partner: Cloud Economics Essentials · 100%verify →
Knowledge Badges (19, average 94.5%)
- Amazon Q Developer Fundamentals · 93%verify →
- AI Driven Development Lifecycle · 92%verify →
- Cloud Essentials · 92%verify →
- Serverless · 98%verify →
- Compute · 95%verify →
- Networking Core · 100%verify →
- Object Storage · 93%verify →
- Block Storage · 88%verify →
- File Storage · 96%verify →
- Events and Workflows · 92%verify →
- Data Protection and Disaster Recovery · 96%verify →
- AWS Security Champion · 92%verify →
- Amazon ECS · 93%verify →
- Amazon EKS · 91%verify →
- Migration Foundations · 98%verify →
- Data Migration · 90%verify →
- AWS Transform Fundamentals · 98%verify →
- End User Computing · 100%verify →
- Amazon WorkSpaces Migrations · 98%verify →
AWS Educate (6)
Anthropic Academy (16)
- Claude 101verify →
- Claude Code 101verify →
- Claude Code in Actionverify →
- Claude Platform 101verify →
- Building with the Claude APIverify →
- Claude with Amazon Bedrockverify →
- Claude on Google Cloudverify →
- Introduction to Model Context Protocolverify →
- Model Context Protocol: Advanced Topicsverify →
- Introduction to subagentsverify →
- Introduction to agent skillsverify →
- Introduction to Claude Coworkverify →
- AI Fluency: Framework & Foundationsverify →
- AI Capabilities and Limitationsverify →
- AI Fluency for Buildersverify →
- AI Fluency for Small Businessesverify →
Salesforce (23)
23 Trailhead badges live on one public Trailblazer profile. Trailhead does not issue a separate link per badge, so the whole profile is the verification, alongside the Agentblazer Champion 2026 status.
Google Cloud (19)
6 skill badges (challenge labs, 100/100 each) issued via skills.google and additionally accredited on Credly on September 23, 2026. The Credly link is below.
The last five lines are course-completion badges from the Generative AI Leader learning path (October 2026). They certify that the courses and their quizzes were completed; they are not the Google Cloud Generative AI Leader certification exam.
- Develop Gen AI Apps with Gemini and Streamlit · 100%verify →
- Enhance Gemini Model Capabilities · 100%verify →
- Engineer AI Agents with Agent Development Kit (ADK) · 100%verify →
- Prompt Design in Agent Platform · 100%verify →
- Inspect Rich Documents with Gemini Multimodality and Multimodal RAG · 100%verify →
- Explore Generative AI in Agent Platform · 100%verify →
- Introduction to Generative AIverify →
- Introduction to Large Language Modelsverify →
- Introduction to Responsible AIverify →
- Introduction to Image Generationverify →
- Transformer Models and BERT Modelverify →
- Attention Mechanismverify →
- Encoder-Decoder Architectureverify →
- Responsible AI: Applying AI Principlesverify →
- Gen AI: Beyond the Chatbotverify →
- Gen AI: Unlock Foundational Conceptsverify →
- Gen AI: Navigate the Landscapeverify →
- Gen AI Apps: Transform Your Workverify →
- Gen AI Agents: Transform Your Organizationverify →
Databricks Academy (3)
OpenAI Academy (4)
IBM SkillsBuild (1)
- Artificial Intelligence Fundamentalsverify →
What I run myself
Everything we sell runs here first. The number on this page is answered by a voice agent I built, so the fastest way to audit my work is to call it and see how it handles you. Our own intake, follow-up, scheduling and reporting run on the same automation stack we deploy for clients, on infrastructure we operate rather than rent. Cardloop, the agent platform the company runs on, is open source under MIT and linked below. When something in that stack breaks at 6am, I am the one who finds out first, which is a useful thing to know about a vendor.
How to work with me
Start with the free audit. Thirty minutes, no pitch: describe where people in your business do what software could be doing, and you get back which piece is worth automating first, which piece is not worth touching yet, and roughly what each one costs. If nothing is worth building, that is a normal answer and you will hear it.
Request a callback above, call (916) 618-0502, or text the same number. English or Russian, whichever is easier. If it turns into a project, the scope and the price are fixed before a line of code is written. More about the company is on the about page, and what we do locally is on the Sacramento page.
What I've built
Cardloop (open source)
The agent platform I run my company on. MIT, on GitHub.
~20 live systems
Voice agents, private RAG, workflow automation, monitoring: built and operated on my own infrastructure.
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