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Alen Paunov

AI Integration & Adoption Strategist · AI Educator & Trainer

alen.paunov@gmail.com alenpaunov.com linkedin.com/in/alen-paunov github.com/AlenPaunov Sofia, Bulgaria · working worldwide

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I help companies and educators turn AI from hype into real capability – strategy that ships, teams that adopt it, and people who know how to use it well.

For 14+ years I have worked where education meets technology – directing programmes at Bulgaria's leading tech academies (SoftUni, ARC Academy, Sirma Academy), co-founding TeachMe, and personally teaching more than 12,500 learners. Since 2023 I have focused that experience on AI: designing integration strategies, leading adoption programmes and training teams to work with AI every day.

I am not a slide-deck consultant. I build production AI systems and AI-native products myself, which is why my roadmaps are realistic and my trainings are hands-on. A background in legal services gives me a practical lens on AI governance, responsible use and the EU AI Act.

12,500+learners taught
14+years in education
350+live lessons
40+media features
420+newsletter readers

01 Core expertise

AI Integration strategy → systems

AI readiness audits, use-case discovery and prioritisation, and roadmaps that move AI from pilots into daily operations – LLM-powered workflows, agents, automations and internal tools connected to the systems a business already runs.

AI Adoption & Change people → habits

Adoption programmes that put people first: clear use policies, champions and enablement plans, success metrics tied to business outcomes, and responsible-AI guidelines aligned with the EU AI Act.

Teaching & Enablement literacy → mastery

Workshops, courses and curricula for every level – from AI literacy and prompt fluency for leadership and non-technical teams, to building with LLM APIs and AI coding agents for engineers and educators.

02 Experience

AI Integration Strategist & Consultant

2023 – now

Independent · clients across business and education

  • Guide organisations from AI curiosity to working capability: readiness audits, use-case mapping, prioritised adoption roadmaps.
  • Design and deliver hands-on trainings for teams and leadership – everyday AI workflows, prompt and context engineering, building with LLM APIs.
  • Help leaders set AI policy, governance and success metrics so adoption is judged by outcomes, not by the number of tools.

Educational Director

2022 – 2026

Sirma Academy · Sirma Group

  • Led award-winning, AI-first engineering education – curricula where learners work with AI assistants as part of the modern engineering workflow.
  • Launched practical AI courses for professionals and career-changers (featured on Bloomberg TV Bulgaria, 2025).
  • Lectured on Practical AI Tools, Java, Spring and Databases – teaching the “how” and “why” behind every concept.

CEO & Co-founder

2020 – now

TeachMe · Teach Me AI Academy

  • Built and scaled a platform connecting learners with the right teachers, bringing private tutoring into the open.
  • Created beginner courses in programming (C#) and Microsoft Excel; delivered hundreds of live online lessons.
  • Now building Teach Me AI Academy – a live-course learning platform with tracks, assessments, certificates and payments.

Educational Director

2021 – 2022

ARC Academy · creative-tech education

  • Directed game art, design and development education; launched ARC Online, the academy's online course line.

Educational Director

2018 – 2021

SoftUni · Bulgaria's largest software university

  • Helped develop and scale education programmes, including a new end-to-end software engineering programme.
  • Trainer in programming and Excel automation for thousands of learners.

Legal Services

6 years

Earlier career

  • A foundation in regulation, contracts and risk that now informs my work on AI governance and compliance.

03 Selected AI builds

Shipped hands-on with AI coding agents – proof that the strategy I recommend works in practice.

Domly

PropTech SaaS · Next.js · Firebase · Stripe

Multi-tenant platform for building managers – residents, ledgers, levies, documents and assemblies in one mobile-first app.

Teach Me AI Academy

EdTech LMS · React · Node · Firebase

Learning platform for live courses: enrolment, professional tracks, assessments, certificates, payments and automated reminders.

AI Notebook

Interactive curriculum · alenpaunov.com

A free, illustrated AI course in Bulgarian – six interactive lessons that explain how modern AI actually works.

AdScout

Data tooling · Playwright

Browser-automation crawler that identifies which companies buy advertising directly from media sites, with a generated dashboard.

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