A new IT cluster has emerged in Western Ukraine’s Transcarpathia, a region that hosts a number of refugees from other regions of the countries that are torn or threatened by war. Some 30,000 tech professionals were based in the region as of early September, up from just 2,000 before the war, according to Zhanna Kapitsa, …
In Western Ukraine, far from the front, new IT cluster gathers 100 companies Read More
Evgeniia Toporkova left Kyiv in early March as Russian troops closed in, making her way through familiar streets disconcertingly transformed by concrete barricades, rusted anti-tank obstacles, and nervy soldiers, before cramming with panicked crowds onto a train west. After that, the 26-year-old tech worker spent two days sheltering in a student dormitory by the Hungarian border. She was glad for the sleeping bag her employer, software …
Coding in a war zone: Ukraine’s tech industry adapts to a new normal Read More
In July 2022, IT Ukraine Association teamed up with the Sayenko Kharenko law firm to conduct a research on the relocation trends among Ukrainian IT companies. Among the surveyed companies were essentially those employing from 50 to 200 IT professionals (28%) and from 200 to 1,200 (42%). While no details on the methodology are provided by the …
Since 2016, industry association Lviv IT Cluster has published an annual report on industry trends in this tech-friendly region of western Ukraine. This year, the research aims to reflect the key evolutions Ukrainian IT industry in wartime nationwide. While more than 5,000 respondents were surveyed in the Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Rivne, Ternopil, Volyn, Chernivtsi and Zakarpattia regions, the …
Report: Ukrainian IT sector demonstrates resilience and growth despite Russian invasion Read More
Central bank statistics published last month have confirmed the relative resilience of the Ukrainian IT services sector in wartime. The contribution of the country’s IT companies to National Bank’s foreign currency incomes reached $3.18 billion for the first five months of this year — including March, April and May, when Ukraine was already struggling against de Russian …
Ukrainian IT service export slowed down but still grew in three first months of war Read More
Capgemini, a Paris-based global leader technology consulting services, is making available a range of positions in France to people displaced by the war in Ukraine. Jobs are available in the fields of digital, cloud, cybersecurity, data, finance and intelligent industry — from digital transformation consultants, to software engineers, to data scientists, to graphic designer. Applicants …
A month on from Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Ukrainian IT sector remains resilient, robust, and a crucial part of the country’s economy. A stable source of foreign exchange earnings, the sector is also helping to ensure the digital security of the Ukrainian state: five per cent of IT workers have signed up for …
A month on from Russia’s invasion, Ukraine’s remarkable IT sector thrives Read More
Cost is no longer the only trademark of the CEE region, shows a whitepaper just released by Daxx, a software development and technology consulting service provider with development centers in Ukraine. The time for mere business processes outsourcing to countries like Ukraine just for the sake lowering costs is gone for good. As Central and …
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Beetroot, a Swedish IT service company that builds teams of tech experts in Ukraine, has just released a report on the “critical role” of sustainability in its operations — offering an example of how an IT company may put sustainable development principles into practice. The report identifies some of the ways the company has contributed …
Swedish-Ukrainian IT company shows the way to “sustainable software development” Read More
Grid Dynamics, a Ukrainian-founded, NASDAQ-listed digital transformation consultancy and solution provider, has acquired Tacit Knowledge, a major provider and integrator of digital commerce solutions. “We are pleased to welcome Tacit Knowledge to the Grid Dynamics family. [This company] excels at consulting for top global brands, differentiate through a focus on digital transformation, and consistently deliver the highest …
U.S. ride booking company Lyft has confirmed its plans to open a research and development center in Kyiv, Ukrainian tech media Dou.ua reported on May 25. Lyft wants to hire at least 80 local tech specialists, in addition to 20 techies that the company already employs in Ukraine. Lyft’s R&D center in Kyiv will focus on improving …
US taxi service Lyft to open R&D center in Kyiv, hire techies Read More
Last month the Ukrainian online tech resource TechUkraine has released its annual report on the country’s tech sectors. “While 2020 has been a year of groundbreaking changes, the Ukrainian tech sector has demonstrated its proactivity, flexibility, continued job creation, great kicks off, and investment deals,” believe the authors of the report. These achievements came as the country …
Report: Ukraine’s IT export exceeded $5 billion in 2020 Read More
