Amadeus Sofia appoints Olivier Guittard as General Manager and Project Director for Research and Development
With 25 years of experience in Amadeus, he will focus on the further growth of the Bulgarian team
Amadeus Sofia has appointed Olivier Guittard as its new general manager as of August 1st. He takes over the position from Svezhen Vassilev, who is retiring. In addition, Olivier became Project Director for Amadeus Sofia on June 1 and will be responsible for Research & Development.
Among his goals as a Project Director will be the expansion of current solutions features and cutting-edge technologies to respond to the needs of today’s travel industry and tomorrow’s trends. In his role as General Manager, Olivier will be responsible for continuing the growth of the Amadeus Sofia team and the active collaboration of the R&D team in Sofia and the other Amadeus R&D centers around the globe.
“As travel returns, we are increasing our investment in Bulgaria. We are looking to recruit over 100 experts with C++, Python, Java, PHP and Angular by the mid of 2023, as well as QA professionals to keep developing robust transactional and mission critical travel solutions and support our journey to the cloud. We have big ambitions for Amadeus Sofia”, shared Olivier about his new role.
Amadeus Sofia is one of the key R&D centers of Amadeus, employing nearly 300 tech professionals, who use a variety of technologies and tools like C++, Python, PHP, Java, Oracle, MongoDB, JavaScript, PHP, Angular, HTML, CSS, .NET, etc. . The team in Bulgaria is focused not only on delivering an innovative and attractive end-to-end solution to corporations, but on providing solutions for rail operations, plus end-to-end support across projects serving billions of passengers, and optimizing the way travel agencies are working all over the world.
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DevStyler.bg: Amadeus Sofia appoints Olivier Guittard as General Manager and Project Director for Research and Development
