A lifelong technology enthusiast, Nikolay began his IT career in Bulgaria before the internet had even arrived. Starting with CA-Clipper and Novell networks, he quickly advanced to architecting one of the first online CRMs for GSK Bulgaria. Over two decades at GSK, he held leadership roles across both Commercial and R&D IT, delivering over 140 global innovation projects and leading cross-functional engineering teams. After a successful run in mobile development and co-founding a tech startup, he joined ClearRoute in 2023 as Managing Director for Bulgaria. He now leads the growth of ClearRoute’s nearshore delivery center in Sofia, helping clients unlock value through expert consultancy and software engineering. His career has been defined by continuous learning, technical depth, and a passion for building strong, effective teams that solve real-world challenges.

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Kouros has throughout his career been fascinated by what’s possible when technology and business come together. He has been the driving force in some of the UKs most successful digital transformations, helping enterprise organisations move to agile operating models, adopt test first, cloud native development approaches and revolutionise the way they operate through DevOps and SRE.

With a reputation for creating innovative, highly technical engineering teams he helped to build a world class engineering team at a leading Agile Transformation consultancy, growing their capability and reputation in Continuous Testing, DevOps, Cloud & Digital Transformation until its acquisition.