Valeriy Zarubin, co-founder of the Ukrainian defense tech company BlueBird Tech, believes that not all IT specialists should move to work in the defense industry.
Valeriy Zarubin, co-founder of the Ukrainian defense tech company BlueBird Tech, believes that not all IT specialists should move to work in the defense industry.
He stated this in an interview with dev.ua, commenting on the prospects for specialists to transition from classic IT to defense tech.
«Not all IT specialists should go into defense tech, and that’s normal. Ukrainian IT should develop in different directions, and strong product companies are needed no less than defense tech teams,» Zarubin noted.
In his opinion, the key challenge for the Ukrainian IT industry today is not the choice between outsourcing and miltech, but the transition to a product-based work model.
«A lot of Ukrainian IT companies still work as outsourcers: they take tasks from the customer and simply perform them. The greatest value now is when companies start creating their own products and become known in the world precisely because of them,» says the co-founder of BlueBird Tech.
At the same time, he acknowledges that defense tech has become an example of just such a product approach. «In defense tech, you either build a product or you’re out of the game,» Zarubin emphasized.
He added that a move into the defense industry could be a logical step for those engineers looking for a fast-paced environment, complex technical challenges, and the opportunity to work on products that directly impact events on the front lines.
«If you don’t find such development for yourself, then defense tech becomes a logical step,» he summed up.
