Історії

The story of Serhiy Kuksa is not a classic case of a quick switch to IT after a few short courses. It is the story of a person with extensive life experience, for whom changing profession after 20 years in trade required a lot of work, doubts and risks. Systematic training became the basis of this transition. And now Serhiy works in a new field as a Data Scientist at Vodafone Ukraine and has returned to the Big Data Lab as a mentor — a practicing expert in the field of Data Science and AI.

Can you imagine a guy who, at 14, independently creates websites for a small local business in the Lviv region, at 16, works as a programmer in the Czech Republic, and at 19, already has his own successful startup in the USA and is a judge at the HackHarvard hackathon at Harvard University? Can you imagine? And now you can meet him — this is Yuriy Tovarnytsky, who managed to go from the first laptop given to him by his parents to a successful startuper and programmer in just six young years. However, it took him a lot of effort to do this.

The author of the on-board software for Apollo has passed away at the age of 90. Her code helped land on the moon, and her approach to reliability still underlies mission-critical software.

Denis Voznyuk works in the corporate security department of EPAM, and at home he has four 3D printers named after Air Force aircraft. He prints parts for FPV, caps for Stinger missiles, pillboxes for first aid kits, and even elements of lamps for operating rooms in Kharkiv and Dnipro hospitals for the Defense Forces. It all started with a collection for a thermal imager for a relative from the border detachment. Denis told dev.ua how the community of printers emerged, why he calls 3D printing "a rabbit" of volunteering, and what should not be allowed in helping the military. Below is his direct speech.

NRC operator Andriy has over 50 logistics missions under his belt and many stories about things that can go wrong. But despite all the difficulties, NRCs deliver cargo to places where it is too dangerous for a person to go and, in Andriy's opinion, remain something absolutely indispensable for the front. Andriy told dev.ua the stories that impressed him the most.

C/C++ developer Vitaliy Kremin on LinkedIn and stand-up comedian Vitalik Kremin on YouTube and live performances: these two roles have been successfully and quite organically combined in one person for many years. However, the full-scale war has made its adjustments here too — so now Vitaliy Kremin is a serviceman in the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and there is not much time left in his life for IT and stand-up.

When they say that the topic of digitalization of healthcare is very painful for Ukrainians, we are dealing here not only with the figurative, but also with the direct meaning of this word. After all, the paper bureaucracy of a huge and poorly managed system inherited from the Soviet Union has long caused people with very different diagnoses, including life-threatening ones, to suffer.

In Threads, a mobilized IT guy with the nickname oncceuponatime_dude keeps a diary about how he ended up in the army. We’ve already told you about his experience from «gentle busification» and a night in the CCK barracks to his first day in the battalion . In the second part of the AIT man’s confessions and discoveries, he talked about the BZVP, «NATO shots on the lips,» and «playing stormtroopers.» In the third part of the diary, the AIT member shared his thoughts on why those who were converted to the military did not flee the army, how different the conditions of service are in the staff and infantry, and weapons in the blanket. The fourth part of his observations — about intimidation in the army and the redeployment of the unit — is not without surprises . The fifth part of the frankness is about intimidation in the army, losses, and life in a front-line city. A hearty portion of confessions and revelations — about thoughts about the SZCh, the fear of being transferred to the infantry, and the desire to escape from Ukraine. Today, an IT expert talks about the specifics of a clerk’s job and army rituals that mentally return soldiers to their former lives.

In April of this year, I opened the Discord community for our product My Drama and saw a message: «I won’t know how to speak properly, but I will be able to order a beer in Ukraine.» It was written by an American woman who watches our vertical series. When launching the community, we thought first and foremost about the product. We wanted to increase audience retention, increase the organic growth of My Drama, create a place where viewers could discuss their favorite series between releases, share their impressions, and return to the product not only for new episodes. In other words, build a strong community around the brand.

Before the war, Andriy Zhupnyk developed a business in Lviv that included renting musical equipment, rehearsal facilities, recording studios, and his own concert venue. In 2022, he voluntarily joined the army, and after demobilization, he decided not to return to business, but to try his hand at IT. He studied at the «IT for Veterans» program from EPAM Ukraine, mastered React and AWS, and eventually received an offer to join the company. He currently works as a Junior Software Engineer on the Digital FoodBank volunteer project.

Історія про те, як маркетолог без прав адміністратора побудував автоматичний моніторинг ботів, який щодня аналізує сотні тисяч запитів, пише готові інструкції для адмінів і сам перевіряє, чи подіяли зміни.

The hum of dozens of coolers merges into one continuous monotonous noise that does not stop for a minute. In this room, despite the abnormal Ukrainian heat, parts that are vitally needed on the front line are continuously being created: from discharge systems to mine shafts. This relentless process is managed by Yuriy Sakhno, the head of the design department at Kyivstar, who in his free time from his main job has become a printer and founder of a powerful volunteer 3D farm. We tell you how Yuriy's 3D farm works, which grew from a small hobby into a charitable cause that makes a difference on the front lines.

In the spring of 2022, Koru Pharma, a global biopharmaceutical company from South Korea, approached Clarity Ukraine with a request to replace its current ERP system. A large-scale business serving thousands of customers in different countries and working with multiple currencies needed a reliable digital foundation. Clarity Ukraine, Microsoft’s official representative for the implementation of Dynamics 365 Business Central, became a partner for this transformational project.

The founder of the startup Injobe.com, Pavlo Mykhalchuk, grew up in a small village in the Khmelnytskyi region and doesn’t remember the moment he decided to become an entrepreneur. He says it all happened naturally. At thirteen, he was breeding rabbits and pigeons, a little later he sold insurance policies at StarLife, and after school he worked as a waiter and assistant cook. «I was constantly looking for an opportunity to earn money. I tried different things, saw what worked and what didn’t. I was interested not just in making extra money, but in understanding how it all worked,» the man recalls. When most of his peers were preparing to enter, Pavlo asked his parents not to insist on university. He was not against education as such, but he was convinced that he would learn much more now if he immediately started working and was responsible for his own decisions. «I said that I wanted to build my own life. My parents supported me,» says the 25-year-old entrepreneur. Now he admits that he is increasingly thinking about business education — not because he felt the need for a diploma, but because he wants to systematize the experience he gained in a completely different way — through his own mistakes, unsuccessful decisions, and dozens of business experiments. dev.ua talked to an entrepreneur who knows everything about Telegram business and plans to monetize his own HR-tech project.

While most teenagers are just looking for their calling, 14-year-old Stas Kozosvyst designs server architecture, implements AI solutions based on Gemini, and develops his own content encryption technology. The guy began his IT journey at the age of 7, and today he manages the development of the EdTec ecosystem of Avmira, has over 30 international certificates, and helps other teenagers launch their first startups for free. We asked Stas about how his platform works, how the project is financed, and how he manages to combine business management with school lessons.

I was building my first commercial website in 2005. If someone had told me back then that I would still be doing web development twenty years later, I would have probably been surprised. At that time, the Internet looked completely different. Many companies were not yet sure whether they needed a website at all. Social networks were just gaining popularity, almost no one was talking about cloud services, and most tasks had to be solved manually.

Daniil Zhabrovets, a 17-year-old student of Lyceum No. 1 in Zhytomyr, as part of the RJ 45 team, recently became the winner of the CTF Junior League-2026. This is a large-scale all-Ukrainian team competition in cybersecurity for young people (schoolchildren, students of vocational schools and universities), where teams solve practical tasks related to web security, cryptography, reverse engineering, OSINT, artificial intelligence, etc.

Is it possible to simultaneously ensure the quality of software products and write Ukrainian fantasy that sells in tens of thousands of copies? The heroine of a new interview on dev.ua proves that two seemingly completely different spheres can not only successfully coexist, but also complement each other. We talked with Iryna Grabovska about how development methodologies like SDLC and estimates help in writing books, why artificial intelligence will not be able to replace real creativity and automate the entire QA process, as well as the challenges of finding a job in the modern IT market.

Three Ukrainian developers — Artem Ivanenko, Maksym Shymon, and Serhiy Krasilnyk — have set themselves an extremely ambitious task: not only to create a «Ukrainian analogue of BlaBlaCar» as a product, but also to bite off a certain number of users from an international competitor. To begin with, at least directly in Ukraine.

Oleksiy Kuts, a resident of AIT, wrote on LinkedIn to reach the Ministry of Defense, called the academies of three cities, transferred from the rear to the combat unit after months of correspondence with the General Staff, and eventually managed to break through the wall of military bureaucracy and join the newly created IT vertical of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. We talked with Oleksiy about how the IT vertical works from the inside and which IT worker would be suitable for the position of army digitalizer.

When Dmytro Yanovsky stepped out of the airport in Tempe, Florida, at the age of 18, the first thing he realized was that you can’t survive here without a car. No public transportation, scorching heat, and nowhere to walk. No family nearby, no scholarship, no campus waiting. Just a suitcase, money from Ukrainian freelance work, and the feeling that making mistakes is expensive. Eight years later, Yanovsky became the first student in the history of California’s De Anza College to be accepted to both MIT and Princeton University at the same time. Then the Ukrainian went on to work at the legendary MIT CSAIL laboratory, interned at Pulley, and launched the Prox startup at Y Combinator. And in parallel, Dmytro founded the ULTA educational program, through which 15% of the first stream of Ukrainian students entered MIT. dev.ua spoke with Dmytro about his life journey, which included pasta for a dollar, a fateful phone call from Boston, and why he considers Ukrainian defense tech to be one of the biggest opportunities in the world right now.

Eight years ago, Gennady Tatarkin worked in a furniture factory and built a completely understandable professional life. Work, plans, the usual rhythm — everything changed in an instant after a work injury, when his hand had to be amputated. There were months of adaptation ahead, painful getting used to the new reality, dozens of interviews and rejections, after which, even if no one said it out loud, one thing was clear: employers did not believe that a person with a prosthesis would be able to work on an equal footing with others. At that time, it seemed that along with his hand, he lost his usual future. But today, Gennady works in the EPAM archival department, digitizes documents, travels from Bila Tserkva to the Kyiv office, undergoes corporate training on the use of AI, and is convinced: there is no business that he could not master if he allowed himself to try. Gennady told dev.ua how he survived the loss of his hand, why employers often create barriers for people with disabilities, and how, step by step, he regained simple things that once seemed impossible — from cooking potatoes according to his own recipe to tying shoelaces with one hand.

Hiding in a supermarket overnight for new boosters or trading your Audi R8 for a cardboard collection sounds crazy. But it's the reality of the modern trading card market. Today, they sell for millions, provoke robberies around the world and create a crazy shortage. From auction records to bidding wars on OLX for STALKER 2 cards - we explore the phenomenon of the most unexpected investment of the decade.