Work with me

Specifications, model checking, proofs, and testing.

I work with teams on focused specification projects, longer research and development collaborations, hands-on workshops, and individual consulting sessions.

igor@konnov.phd LinkedIn

Vienna, Austria

Clients in the US, UK & EU

Consulting

Typical engagement: 4-8 hours

Focused help with a design question, a difficult specification, or your use of verification tools. We can review an approach, work through a counterexample, or decide where formal methods would be useful for your team.

  • Specification idioms, modeling choices, and tool guidance for TLA+, Quint, and Lean
  • Advice on protocol design, verification strategy, and testing
  • Integration with AI tools
  • Online calls or on-site meetings

Specification and verification workshop

Typical engagement: Format and duration tailored to your team

I work alongside your team to improve its specification and verification capabilities. Using a protocol or specification relevant to your work, we practice modeling, stating properties, and interpreting verification results, so the team can continue independently.

  • Exercises tailored to your team's experience and the systems you build
  • Hands-on work with TLA+, Quint, or Lean, chosen for your goals
  • Joint review of specifications, invariants, counterexamples, and proofs
  • Reusable examples and practical next steps for applying the methods in your daily work

Short-term specification projects

Typical engagement: 1–2 weeks for reviews; 4–8 weeks for specification and model checking

A focused project to write, review, or strengthen a protocol specification. I work from design documents, existing models, or implementation code to clarify behavior, identify the properties that matter, and check the design before it reaches production.

  • Executable specifications in TLA+ or Quint, including work from Rust, Go, or Solidity implementations
  • Safety invariants, liveness properties, simulation, and model checking
  • Speeding-up specification and verification with AI tools
  • A findings report and handover of specifications your team can maintain

Research & development projects

Typical engagement: Scope and milestones agreed together

A collaboration for questions that need investigation as well as implementation. I work with your team to explore protocol designs, develop verification methods, and build tools that connect formal models to real systems.

  • Protocol models, proof development, and experimental prototypes
  • Specification-driven testing harnesses, fuzzing, fault injection, and invariant checking
  • AI-assisted test generation where useful, with human review of specifications and results
  • Reproducible results, documented tools, and integration into your team's workflow