Tallinn, Estonia – 25 August 2026 – ELEKS, a global software engineering and technology consulting company, today marks its 35th anniversary. The milestone traces the company's evolution from a single software product into a 2,300-strong engineering organisation working across Europe, North America, the Middle East, and Asia.
Founded in 1991 by Oleksiy Skrypnyk and his son Oleksiy Skrypnyk Jr., ELEKS began with the launch of Dakar — a science-intensive software platform for power distribution systems across Eastern European markets. By 2016, it was operating in more than 20 power systems across the region. What began as a product company gradually evolved into one of the leading software engineering and consulting firms in Europe, appearing on the IAOP Global 100 list for twelve consecutive years, and earning recognition across business achievement rankings, software engineering and design innovation, as well as employer and workplace excellence in the region.
Today ELEKS serves more than 120 active client accounts and has delivered over 1,500 end-to-end software projects. Many of those partnerships have run for more than 20 years. That longevity points to consistent delivery quality and sustained institutional trust.
Building a global business, one market at a time
ELEKS' international growth has been deliberate and cumulative rather than sudden. The company won its first Western client in 1999 — an engagement now part of BNY Mellon — and built on that early trust with a Jersey-based consultancy partnership in 2001 and a Paperless Customs System for the States of Jersey in 2008, proving it could deliver complex, government-scale systems abroad.
Expansion then became structural: UK operations opened in 2012, and by 2014 ELEKS had added multiple global leaders and Fortune 500 enterprises to its client portfolio. By 2018, the company had opened offices in Berlin, Chicago, and Toronto to bring delivery closer to clients. Growth continued even through the pandemic, with a new office in Ajman, UAE, in 2020.
ELEKS operates offices across the US, Canada, the UK, Germany, Poland, Switzerland, Japan, Croatia, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia, serving more than 120 active clients. Several partnerships span 20+ years, reflecting a pattern of accounts that start small and grow alongside the client's own business.
