“Oleksiy Skrypnyk, co-founder of the Eleks IT company, passed away on January 7.”, — write: epravda.com.ua
Oleksiy Skrypnyk, co-founder of the Eleks IT company, passed away on January 7. This was reported by his grandson Anton Skrypnyk. “Our Oleksii Ivanovich Skrypnyk passed away at the age of 86. He was a scientist, brilliant engineer and system entrepreneur… Oleksii Ivanovich is a legend of Ukrainian IT, co-founder of the Eleks company and an example of how one person can set thousands of hearts on fire,” – he wrote on Facebook. As the DOU publication wrote, Oleksiy Skrypnyk had a lot of experience in programming: he started programming the Soviet analogue of IBM – M-222 in the 1970s. Subsequently, together with family members, he founded the company Eleks in 1991 in Lviv to fulfill orders of large energy enterprises. Advertisement: Now the company has more than 2,000 employees and works in 13 countries of the world on 3 continents. Specializes in Big Data, data migration and custom software development. We will remind: In 2018, 18 Ukrainian IT companies (with large offices or established in Ukraine) were included in the list of the 100 best outsourcing service providers, among which Eleks was. Advertisement: At the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Lviv IT company Eleks announced that it would allocate UAH 600,000 a day to support the Armed Forces and the Territorial Defense Forces.