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In the last week, the world’s attention has once again been focused on Iran and the Middle East in general. After another wave of mass protests and their bloody suppression in January, the situation in the country began to develop even more rapidly and unpredictably in late February. On the last day of winter, after a series of military strikes by the United States and Israel, the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who had ruled the country for almost 40 years — since 1989 — was officially confirmed. The day before, it was reported that his son Mojtaba had taken over power.

On February 24, 2022, for many Ukrainians, moving was no longer an option. It became a matter of safety. 42-year-old Olga Artemasova, Global Head of Business Analysis Center of Excellence at Ciklum, told dev.ua how a temporary solution «for a week» turned into almost four years of living in the village — with a generator, an inverter, «Aunt Nina Mʼyaso» in contacts and a dream of returning to her native Kharkiv. What follows is her direct speech.

Valery Krasovsky, CEO of Sigma Software Group, speaks with dev.ua to analyze the company’s cooperation with British giant BAE Systems, explain the importance of European digital sovereignty, and name the promising Ukrainian projects changing the rules of the game on the battlefield.

On February 23, 2022 Senior Engineering Manager at EPAM, Kateryna Sushkova, did not believe that the next morning her life would change dramatically. She fell asleep in her apartment in central Kharkiv with her husband and son, planning a team meeting for the following day. At 5 a.m. on February 24, the family saw flashes of fighting on the outskirts of the city from their window. That same day, they headed west. Within a few months, the village of Berehomet in the Chernivtsi region became their new home. Kateryna told dev.ua about life in a small town, adapting after a forced relocation, and the transformations brought by war and a new reality. Below is her first-person account.

Relationships between colleagues can end in a wedding — or a scandal and dismissal. For business, it’s not a question of romance, but of risks: conflict of interest, influence on decisions, accusations of favoritism or harassment. dev.ua asked how Ukrainian IT companies regulate office romances and whether there are direct prohibitions.

Bohdan Shvets is a front-end and Unity developer with a terrible disease. He can write code, pass tests, and spend years honing his skills, but he can't physically come to the office because he's received hundreds of rejections from employers. We talked to Bohdan about remote work, which only exists in words, the fear of business in front of disabilities, and a system that leaves a person alone with his future.

After seven years in IT and a leadership role, Victoria Sinkevich resigned without a clear plan — due to illness and professional burnout. Today, she lives in Spain, develops her own astrology school, and earns more than in the technology industry. We spoke with Victoria about her journey from business assistant to astropsychologist.

In the world of programming, the term “stress tolerance” is often just a cliché on a resume. However, for Oleksandr Viter, Senior Python Developer, this concept has acquired a completely new, physical meaning. Twice in two weeks, Russian “shaheeds” hit Oleksandr’s apartment in Odessa and almost completely destroyed his home. We talked to the IT guy about how to act in such a situation, who to contact and who came to the rescue first.

Semen Nenashev is 27 years old. Talking about himself, he mentions several statuses: father, veteran of the Russian-Ukrainian war, a person with a disability due to a combat injury, and a QA engineer. His biography includes an IT career, service in a strike UAV unit, a serious injury, and a return to civilian life with a disability. He does not romanticize the war and does not embellish his path. The veteran from Aiti shared with dev.ua his story not about «successful success,» but about a choice that haunts him.

Yuriy Chlek went from chief engineer of a gas company to Magento developer, and with the start of a full-scale war he became an officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In the service, he not only fought, but also created an internal data collection system that replaced paper reporting. After demobilization, Yuriy returned to the tough IT market and is now looking for his place in civilian life again. dev.ua talked to Yuriy about his dizzying path to IT through the war.

Ten years in testing, a successful career from Junior QA to Project Lead, and a stable income. This is what Victoria Golovchenko's professional path looked like until 2025. However, today her life has changed dramatically: instead of finding bugs in mobile games, she teaches Spanish, stars in series for Netflix, and conquers the catwalks as a model. dev.ua talked to Victoria about the dizzying year that radically changed her professional life.

The story of Bohdan Holovach, a military man and former iOS developer, is not about «an IT guy who joined the army.» It’s about a person who is constantly looking for a form in which he can be himself: in code, in war, and in his own product. He has been defending Ukraine for four years, and despite this, he dreams of living and developing among conscious Ukrainians and building a career in IT, which he left behind because of the war. Now, while in the military, Bohdan has managed to create and develop his own brand of quality clothing for conscious Ukrainians. He is also very concerned about the fate of veterans returning from war. Below is the story of a man who was not afraid to turn his life 18 degrees at least twice.

Valeria Kuryakova got into IT right after university, worked as a project and product manager, managed teams and made decisions based on data. But at some point she realized that the system did not allow her to develop the product, and her role was reduced to “fighting fires”. Valeria told dev.ua how she decided to leave the industry and build her own direction — analytics and in-depth consumer research.

Igor Hrynevych, Head of the Vega Primary Network Planning Department (responsible for the development of fixed communications at Vodafone Ukraine), has been working at the company for over 15 years. During this time, the company has gone from the first research into GPON technologies in 2017 to the modern gigabit network Vodafone Gigabit Net . We talked to Igor and he gave practical recommendations on how to improve the quality of the Internet at home. There are many nuances that affect the data transfer speed, signal quality, which can ultimately make the gigabit Internet declared by the provider not quite gigabit. So how to avoid this?

Serhiy Aityvets celebrated Christmas 5,000 km from Kyiv, on an island where he is building a house with his own hands. He previously worked in a number of technical positions, at the mobile operator Kyivstar, the global technology company Dreamscape Networks, and several Ukrainian government agencies, while also working on freelance projects in the IT sector. But now the IT guy is implementing the most unusual personal life project — without outside help, he is trying to restore the ruins of a house on an island in the Atlantic Ocean. São Miguel is one of the Azores islands with the capital Ponta Delgada, and the hero of this article has been living in a village about 30 km from the capital since April of this year.

IT Enterprise would not exist without the lectures of Professors Pavlov, Grisha, Tomashevsky… libraries where I spent weeks, and problems that cannot be solved «head-on» even by modern computers…

Perhaps every professional programmer's story begins long before a person sits down at a computer for the first time or writes the first line of code. The story of IT-Enterprise co-founder Volodymyr Mikhailov began in Kyiv in the 1970s, in a city that would have had every chance of becoming the Soviet Silicon Valley if not for the imperial realities of that era. It was an environment where children's games were intertwined with adult engineering conversations, and the words "computer", "ASUV" and "Institute of Cybernetics" sounded not like science fiction, but as part of everyday life...

In the financial industry, automation has long ceased to be exclusively an IT sphere. At Kredobank, this transition came naturally: after the large-scale implementation of RPA (Robotic Process Automation), the bank faced another challenge — how to get rid of hundreds of small routine actions that take up employees' time every day. This is how RDA (Robotic Desktop Automation) appeared in the bank — automation at the workplace level. And with it — the Robotics Academy, where employees learn to create their own robots. dev.ua continues the story started in a conversation with Oleg Noga, COO (Chief Operating Officer) of Kredobank, and talks about the robotization model that combines technology and human development.

How many Ukrainian startups are bought in the Far East? Units. And today’s hero of the interview is Sasha Makarovych, the founder of the Kadmos startup, which he sold to a Japanese company last year. His service simplified salary payments to sailors and became one of the few global solutions in this industry. dev.ua asked Sasha about his childhood and youth, his first business attempts, the creation of Kadmos, and the sale of the service to the Japanese. The entrepreneur also gave advice to Ukrainian startup founders based on his own experience. What follows is his direct speech.

History lesson on why the CEO of an EdTech company is not immune to epic fuckups.

Last year, Work.ua co-founder Andriy Borovyk sold his stake to partners — another co-founder of the job search platform, Artur Mikhn, as well as Polish Grupa Pracuj and Jooble co-founder Roman Prokofiev. Since then, he has focused exclusively on the development of two of his own projects — the keyboard simulator for speed typing Ratatype and the Education.ua platform. We talked to Andriy Borovyk about how the idea of ​​Ratatype came about, where the touch typing simulator has already conquered the market, and where it is just getting there, and why in some countries speed typing is taught to children in schools. Andriy Borovyk also told dev.ua whether it is difficult for the project team to deal with unusual language layouts and why the task now is not only to add new layouts, but also to remove an existing one. And most importantly, why he, as a techno-businessman, believes in the educational domain despite the lack of large funds in it.

Ukrainian developer Serhii Onishchenko never dreamed of becoming a programmer. It all started unexpectedly — with his first job as a system administrator, where he first touched on commercial web development. «I was just drawn in,» he says. Today, the IT professional lives and works in the US, has 10 years of experience in frontend and mobile development, and recently published his own technical book on Amazon. It contains concentrated experience working with large projects and a systematic approach to building scalable React applications. dev.ua tells why Ukrainian developers are able to create world-class content.