Ignat started his professional career as a Specialist for the Monitoring and Analysis Unit at Manas International Airport in May 2014. In less than a year, he was promoted to Financial Director of the same department. Despite this success, Ignat decided to pursue his entrepreneurial dreams and left Manas in summer 2016 to co-found an educational center, Exchange Studio, in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic. Currently, the center has three full-time and three part-time employees, and about 40 students. Exchange Studio provides not only a wide range of educational programs, it also helps local youth develop their potential and important qualities that will enable them face life’s challenges and achieve success. Ignat also continues to support the Unity Fund, an AUCA charitable organization that he co-founded in 2010 in response to the tragic events caused by ethnic clashes in his native Osh.