DOU created an online memorial for IT workers who died in the Russo-Ukrainian war
The DOU publication created a project in honor of Ukrainian IT workers who gave their lives while defending Ukraine from a full-scale Russian invasion.
The DOU publication created a project in honor of Ukrainian IT workers who gave their lives while defending Ukraine from a full-scale Russian invasion.
The IT community memorial is available at this link. It contains short biographies of military personnel who gave their lives for Ukraine, as well as civilians who died at the hands of the Russians.
At the IT memorial you can learn more about such Ukrainian IT professionals as:
- Mykola Petrenko — Senior C++ Developer at Intellias / commander of the mortar group of the 71st Separate Jaeger Brigade of the Airborne Assault Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
- Volodymyr Ivashchenko — Java Software Engineer at AltexSoft / senior soldier in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
- Dmytro Barabash — JavaScript developer at MobiDev / military serviceman.
- Anastasia Yalanska is a DataRobot recruiter/volunteer.
- Oleksiy Nayda is a developer at 1000GEEKS / junior sergeant of the Da Vinci Wolves battalion.
- Gennady Afanasiev — Senior Software Testing Engineer at EPAM / soldier of the 130th Battalion of the 241st Territorial Defense Brigade of Kyiv.
- Daniil Lukashchuk is a DataArt system administrator / military serviceman.
- Taras Chuchman — Senior E-learning Developer at SoftServe / serviceman of the 2nd Separate Galician Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine.
- Viktor Antonenko — Lead RPA Engineer at Ciklum / Warrior of the Russian Federation.
- Kostyantyn Shkryob — Developer at ZoolaTech / UAV operator at 24th Aidar Air Base.
- Daniil Zhmuidov is a ZONE3000 employee / combat medic.
- Vasyl Lavrys — 3D Animator at Gameloft / serviceman of the 41st Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
- Vlas Lisny — Domain Coordinator Wirex R&D / Signalman in the 68th Separate Jaeger Brigade named after Oleksa Dovbush.
- Danylo Boguslavsky — Operational Administrative Coordinator at JustAnswer / rifleman in the 128th Transcarpathian Mountain Assault Brigade.
- Yuriy Kalinkin — Middle Software Engineer at SoftServe / military serviceman.
- Dmytro Zaklevskyi is an employee of IT-Integrator / senior lieutenant in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
- Svyatoslav Golda is a DevOps Engineer at First Bridge / soldier of the 95th Airborne Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
- Taras Savchuk — Front-end Engineer at Abto / soldier of 54/131 ORB and 10 OGShBr.
- Andriy Kubay — Test Automation Lead at SoftServe / serviceman of the 81st Separate Airmobile Brigade.
- Artem Zbaransky — Software Development Lead at Sellbery / military serviceman.
- Oleksandr Figurnyi — MQA Engineer at Avenga / military serviceman.
- Victoria Amelina is an IT specialist and writer.
- Yevheniya Bazylevich and her daughter Yaryna are SEO Specialists at Abto Software and Project Managers at the Lviv — European Youth Capital 2025 office.
- Yuriy Osadchuk — Project Manager N-iX / gunner of the mortar battery of the 62nd battalion of the 103rd brigade of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry.
- Oleg Pereguda is a security guard for the IT company Softjourn / military serviceman.
- Dmytro Krakhmalny — Data Operator SQUAD.
- Maksym Petrenko is a computer science teacher at the University of Ukraine / aerial reconnaissance officer in the National Guard.
- Vladyslav Dzikovskyi is a system administrator for the publication «Detector Media» / senior machine gunner in the National Guard.
- Sergey Sukharev is a programmer and athlete.
- Anton Garbuz — Project Manager at Syndicode / Platoon Commander of the Berlingo Battalion.
- Boris Chubin is a developer, inventor / soldier of the 59th separate motorized infantry brigade named after Yakov Handziuk.
- Serhiy Katruk — Senior Software Developer at Sigma Software / UAV operator of the 95th Separate Airborne Assault Brigade.
- Anton Zayets is an IT specialist at Rig Expert / deputy commander of the 34th Combat Battalion of the 57th Motorized Rifle Brigade.
- Anatoliy Berezhny is a HelpDesk specialist, system administrator at tech/uklon.
- Dmytro Lysenko — RoR developer and Group Lead at Gotoinc / commander of the reconnaissance platoon of the 128th separate territorial defense brigade.
- Volodymyr Ivashchenko — Embedded developer at Larch Networks / company chief sergeant of the 4th brigade of the National Guard.
- Denys Vasilyuk — Trainee Manual QA at Telesens / First Deputy Commander of the Aviation Squadron of the 831st Tactical Aviation Brigade.
- Oleksandr Goshylyk — Ruby on Rails Developer at Verbit / National Guard soldier.
- Yegor Kuklev — Information Support Specialist at Uklon / volunteer at the TRO.
- Ilya Pelykh — Senior Java Developer at Ciklum / National Guard serviceman.
- Olga Sergeyeva is a Change Manager at SoftServe.
- Daniil Kurylenko and his wife Yulia Petrova are IT specialists at Aspectum and tourism managers.
- Dmytro Kryvenko — Software Architect at Innovecs / officer of the operational department of the regiment headquarters.
- Boris Latyk — Junior Software Developer at ELEKS / soldier of the 8th separate battalion of the Andriy Gergert Aratt UDA.
- Pavlo Charkin is a MobiDev system administrator / commander of the 1st mortar platoon of the 92nd separate assault brigade named after Sirko.
- Petro Ursulovych is the head of the security department of the IT company Softjourn / military serviceman.
- Ruslan Ivakhnenko — Senior Android Developer at ELEKS / Head of the Radio Communications Group at the National Guard.
- Viktor Valeev — Director of the Software Ukraine Association / officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
- Mykola Guk — Android Developer at Uptech / military serviceman.
- Roman Petryk — Middle Software Developer at ELEKS / National Guard serviceman.
- Igor Khodak — Senior Java Developer Softjourn / military serviceman.
- Jana Rychlicka — Recruitment Team Lead at Akvelon / combat medic.
- Bohdan Kril is a lecturer at Lviv Polytechnic University.
- Roman Borovik — Lead Software Engineer SoftServe / Senior Combat Medic.
- Andriy Chaban — Front-end Developer of Lanet Networks / serviceman of the 14th Brigade of the National Guard.
«Since 2022, the DOU editorial team has been writing about IT specialists who gave their lives defending Ukraine or became victims of the Russians during a full-scale war. You can find information about them under the obituary tag on the website. However, we feel the need to create a separate memorial project and ask you to help,» the publication notes.
The website has a link to a Google form where you can share your stories about the fallen IT professionals. This information will be used to create a memorial project to preserve their memory.
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