Oleksiy Skrypnyk

Science and education

As deputy chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on Science and Education, Skrypnyk was concerned with IT education and science issues in general. In particular, he proposed educational reform, which would abolish Computer Literacy lessons, introducing instead courses on programming for high school students.

Since 2008 Skrypnyk worked as a senior lecturer at the Institute of Computer Science and Information Technology of the National University "Lviv Polytechnic". He taught Project management of software development and Project Workshop.

He taught Project Management at the Kyiv Mohyla Business School [kmbs].

His research interests include the technology of programming and creating software.

Skrypnyk's father, Oleksiy Ivanovich, is a professor, and programmer with 40 years of experience, and co-founder of ELEKS. Mother, Skrypnyk Evgeniia is an electrical engineer, co-founder of ELEKS.

Skrypnyk was married. He had four sons and a daughter. In his spare time, he enjoyed running, swimming, yachting and cycling. He died of a blood clot on 23 February 2022, at the age of 57.

In 2014 Skrypnyk participated in the parliamentary election campaign. He was third on the party list of Union ''Self Reliance''.

Since November 27, 2014 he was Member of Ukrainian parliament with the parliamentary fraction Union ''Self Reliance''.

On April 22, 2015, he became the Chairman of the Interim Verkhovna Rada "Commission on the future".

Skrypnyk did not take part in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election.