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2024 was a significant year for Suziria Group, one of the leading family-owned companies in the Ukrainian pet market. The group of companies strengthened its positions in key business areas — development and production of its own brands, distribution and retail, and also actively developed international partnerships and internationalized.

Aaron Goldsmid, a 44-year-old programmer from San Francisco, took an unusual path to technology: his parents were Broadway actors, and he was the first in his family to attend college. He became interested in computer science in high school, and received his higher IT education from Columbia University. At one time, the IT specialist did not have people around him who could give him advice on building an IT career. Now, with 20 years of experience behind him, Goldsmid shares the mistakes that are worth avoiding.

Monopoly of service providers is one of the possible reasons for a large-scale cyberattack. Many Ukrainian departments work with certain contractors who monopolize access to systems, as a result, they are not updated and modernized. Such a monopoly makes it difficult to control product security. What other reasons do experts name?

The idea for this interview was born spontaneously when the girls approached dev.ua CEO Stas Yurasov at this year’s IT Arena with a question — is he the same person who now heads the Kyiv IT cluster? We became curious — who is this mysterious leader who currently oversees the association of capital’s tech companies? After several attempts, dev.ua managed to contact and talk to Serhiy Yashchuk, who became the CEO of Kyiv IT Cluster in September. He told how he became the head of the Kyiv cluster, what has changed in the organization since the start of the full-scale invasion, what requests cluster members make, what tasks the organization sets for itself for 2025, and what businesses can expect in the near future.

Business is slowly recovering from the consequences of the Russian missile attack on December 20. As a reminder, on the morning of that day, a Russian missile hit the Toronto business center in the center of the capital, where the offices of MacPaw are located, Superhumans Centre specialists worked, and the head office of Sense Bank.

Hanna Voitikova, Scrum Master at GlobalLogic, opened a company called Fancy IT, where she offers female beginners work experience in IT. She told dev.ua how it works.