Sirma Group
Atanas Kiryakov is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Ontotext – a leading provider of semantic databases and content analytics in media, publishing, pharma, government and cultural heritage.
Atanas joined Sirma as a software engineer in 1993 and later on he became a partner and a member of the Management Board. In 2000, he founded Ontotext and engaged the company in research projects with a total budget of over 100M Euro. In 2008, Atanas finalized an investment deal for Ontotext for 2.5M Euro with the venture capital fund NEVEQ.
Atanas is a leading expert in semantic databases and an author of multiple publications and book chapters, including “Semantic Search” in “Information Retrieval – Searching in the 21st Century” and “Storing the Semantic Web: Repositories” in the “Handbook of Semantic Web Technologies”.
Atanas earned his Master’s Degree in Computer Science at Sofia University.
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Sirma Group Holding is one of the largest Eastern Europe IT companies, founded in 1992. Sirma’s strategic focus is to create world-class, cloud-based business software, industrial applications, mobile platforms and solutions, augmented with an AI layer. Areas of specialisation: * Fintech and Banking solutions * Insurtech * Healthcare * Travel & Hospitality About Sirma: - 33+ years market presence - 800+ full-time IT professionals - clients in 160+ countries - R&D resources in Bulgaria, Romania, Albania, N.Macedonia, Serbia - Publicly traded company - the longest ongoing project started in 2006 Clients KBC Group, Unicredit Group, Raiffesen Bank, Vienna Insurance Group, Financial Times, BBC, Springer Nature, O'Reilly, Paysafe and many more. Technical Expertise * Java (String, Java EE) * Microsoft (.NET Core, MVC, Web Api, Web Forms) * PHP (Laravel, Lumen, Symphony) * Javascript (Node.js, React, Angular, Vue.js, Knockout.js) * Ecommerce (Magento, Woocommerce) * Infrastructure (Docker, Kubernetes, Nginx) * DB (Oracle, Postgresql, MSSQL, MySQL, Elastic Search) * Mobile (Kotlin, Swift, Flutter, React Native, Cordova, Ionic) * Cloud (Azure, AWS, Google Could, Oracle Cloud) * Data & AI (ML, LLM, ETL)