Ivan Dankov
Senior Engineer at the messy intersection of cybersecurity, distributed systems, and observability.
UK & EU · Linux fan · Spaces over tabs
UK & EU · Linux fan · Spaces over tabs
Current Stack
Hybrid Cloud, Linux, Python, Agentic Harnesses
Secure automation across cloud and self-hosted infrastructure.
Primary Focus
Security Engineering, Everywhere
Bringing the same threat-modelling and defence-in-depth mindset from work into the home lab.
Latest Post
Building a Company of AI Agents
How I went from a blank Ubuntu NUC to a self-managing team of four AI agents in one afternoon — and what I learned about trust, security, and letting go.
Latest Project
Self-Hosted Home VPN
A WireGuard gateway that routes my travel devices through my own home connection, without paying a commercial VPN provider to become another trusted middleman.




