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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.

There are more teammates, but the processes are not improving at all. In such a situation, it is difficult for many to admit that headcount does not equal efficiency, let alone team maturity. In this article, I will talk about a common problem for many engineering teams — loss of efficiency during scaling. My work as Head of Development Department at UPSTARS, a rapidly growing company, involves direct work with the challenges that will be discussed below. Let’s get started, shall we?

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.