Founder · Engineering
Lachezar Nikolov
Hardware that shipped by the million. Software I still write myself.
Twenty-six years of mechanical and R&D engineering — head-up displays, instrument clusters, automotive sensors, driver-monitoring cameras, battery-management hardware, precision robotics and heavy industrial equipment. Concept to start of production, under IATF, APQP and DFMEA discipline, through homologation, TÜV and NCAP.
The engineering habits that produce a released drawing are the same ones that make autonomous software safe to run. That is the thesis Iconys is built on.
Opto-mechanics
Volkswagen modular head-up display
Led the mechanical development of a projection assembly where tolerance and alignment strategy, thermal drift and vibration decide whether the optical stack functions at all.
Microns of stack-up, not millimetres
Vision · Near-infrared
IVECO driver monitoring system
Part of the Bosch team delivering an in-cabin near-infrared camera system for trucks, buses and light commercial vehicles.
Homologation · TÜV · Euro NCAP · 2027 model line
High-volume sensing
Fast digital thermocouple sensor
Led development of a sensor that outperformed the market competition, alongside Housing Sensing Element work in a high-volume automotive environment.
+20% over competition · ~25,000,000 units in year one
Semiconductor capital equipment
Precision robotics for wafer fabs
Engineering leadership for robot teaching and port-loading systems serving processor manufacturing — kinematics, actuators and tolerance strategy decide whether the machine works.
Semiconductor, data storage and flat-panel customers
Energy · Sheet metal
Offshore and wind power electronics
Power-electronics modules for Suzlon wind turbines and a GPS and power-distribution module for a Transocean drilling platform — large enclosures, frames and mounting structures.
Designed in Zürich · built to survive unattended
Heavy industry
Mining, materials handling, power generation
Where the career began: crushing and screening plant, harbour and heavy-lifting cranes, coal, hydro and nuclear power generation, and an automation system for nuclear waste storage.
Steel and non-ferrous · structures measured in tonnes
Business-OS.NET
business-os.net
The platform the vertical products sit on. AI governance and regulatory intelligence built around EU AI Act conformity — Annex VI assessment modules, an immutable audit trail, automated workflows — with the accounting, credit, legal and talent verticals on the same spine.
AI-OS.NET
ai-os.net
A Linux platform built around one constitutional rule — AI proposes, never executes — enforced at six independent sites rather than by policy alone. Immutable base images, isolated application cells, append-only evidence logs.
NeuroCAD
neurocad.eu
A browser-native CAD kernel pairing signed distance fields for numeric geometry with geometric algebra for structure. Workbenches for machine elements, sheet metal, welding, tooling, simulation and lattice.
NeuroCOD
neurocod.eu
A software factory platform: a twelve-step workflow from strategy to delivery, semantic project memory, just-in-time skill generation, and design-to-code synchronisation, exposed over MCP.
ProxGuard
proxguard.io
A declarative application control plane — deploy, simulate, operate and govern applications across any runtime and DNS provider without lock-in, on a public versioned service manifest.
Investor OS
investor-os.net
Market analysis, position sizing and institutional custody integration, built as a production system rather than a notebook.
Mechanical Department Lead · Robert Bosch
Led the mechanical engineering department on battery-management hardware: technical direction, design reviews, approval of design documentation, DFMEA, change and release discipline and reliability governance. Completed the two-year Group Lead Academy.
Technical Quote Manager, Display Product Line · Visteon
Led a group of Technical Quote Leaders owning new business pursuits and quotation for cockpit-electronics programmes, coordinating engineering, sales, programme management, purchasing and manufacturing from pursuit to award.
Technology Development Group Leader · Visteon
Advanced technology for cockpit electronics and displays — head-impact capability strategy, MURA characterisation, vertical integration, active privacy concepts, CES demonstrators, and optical test benches for cameras in low light and near-infrared.
Senior R&D Mechanical Engineer · Visteon
Led the RFQ for the BMW Gen 5 cluster family and the PSA display project; mechanical concept development, design reviews and feasibility analysis.
Lead Mechanical Engineer · Sensata Technologies
Project leader for Housing Sensing Element development — concept, design validation, manufacturing feasibility, DFM/DFMEA and launch readiness in a high-volume sensor environment.
HUD Engineer · Mechanical Project Leader · Senior R&D · Johnson Controls, then Visteon
Head-up displays including Chrysler HUD; module parts for the Volkswagen MQB instrument-cluster platform through to launch readiness; instrument clusters, compass systems, clocks and park-distance displays.
R&D Mechanical Engineer · IDS AG, Zürich
Power electronics and energy systems — energy control, propulsion, photovoltaics and energy transfer, with extensive sheet-metal design for large machines.
Chief Engineer · Supervisor of Engineering Group · Genmark Automation
Engineering leadership, design improvement and production support for high-precision robotics serving the global semiconductor, data storage, flat-panel display and biotechnology industries.
R&D Engineer · Besttechnica
Mechanical design of industrial equipment for heavy industry, energy, materials handling, mining and construction.
Education
MSc Mechanical Engineering
MSc Computer Engineering
Technical University of Sofia
Contact
lachezar.h.nikolov@gmail.com
bg.linkedin.com/in/lachezarnikolov
Sofia, Bulgaria