Ukrainian IT engineers continue to work during the Russian invasion, including those who join the 'IT army' to attack enemy rail networks and positioning systems.
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Ukraine's Tech Workers Log Off, Take Shelter --WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraines-tech-workers-log-off-take-shelter-11646173875
Ukraine's Vital Tech Industry Carries On Amid Russian Invasion --WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraines-vital-tech-industry-carries-on-amid-russian-invasion-11646247631
Ukraine is a popular IT outsourcing destination for American and European companies, with an estimated 85,000-100,000 IT workers hired by foreign companies, according to Gartner , an IT research and consulting firm. That.
Artem Horovoi , an employee of San Francisco-based IT company Totango , lives in Zaporizhia, in the south of Ukraine. At the time of the Wall Street Journal's interview, Horovoi said that he was 'not exposed to as much attack as the capital Kyiv (Kiev) and western Kharkiv ', but at the time of writing the article, nuclear power located in Zaporizhia. It is also reported that the power plant is under attack by Russian troops . Also, Totango employee Timofii Vlasov, who lives in Kieu, said he couldn't sleep at all for a few days after the invasion began. After that, Vlasov evacuated to Odessa by the sea where his friend lives and stays at his friend's house.
Totango says that 15 out of a total of 150 employees live in Ukraine and are working on a project in collaboration with the Tel Aviv office in Israel, which is usually located in the same time zone as Ukraine. Guy Nirpaz, CEO of Totango, gave employees the opportunity to move to Israel before the Russian invasion began, but employees chose to stay in Ukraine. 'I didn't thinkof leaving Ukraine,' Vlasov told The Wall Street Journal, even before the National Mobilization Law banned male citizens aged 18-60 after the invasion. That.
In the midst of the Russian invasion, Totango has set up a virtual conference to help Ukrainian employees stay connected to each other. The purpose of the virtual conference is to enable employees living in Ukraine to connect and share information. 'The most important thing at the moment is obviously their safety and well-being. We don't expect productivity or anything else,' Nirpaz told The Wall Street Journal.
Also, Oleksandr Sinitskyi, an IT engineer at Miratech Group, lived in Kieu, but after the invasion, an explosion occurred near his house, and he and his family evacuated to another place by car. Despite this turmoil, Sinitskyi continues to work as an IT engineer, claiming that the work helps to distract from the harsh realities. “It's really depressing to keep an eye on the news and what's going on outside,” Sinitskyi said.
In Ukraine, like Sinitskyi, many IT workers continue to work during the Russian invasion. Russia's invasion has intensified in the east and north, but some companies have procured buses and secured temporary housing in areas such as Lviv in the west, where IT workers and their families are relatively unaffected. Helping to relocate. In addition, since most IT workers are men, it is not possible to escape from the border as it is, but there are many cases where even the family alone escapes.
Stepan Veselovskyi, director of Lviv IT Cluster, an industry group that has 200 of the 500 high-tech companies with offices in Lviv, said that most IT companies continue to operate in Lviv. It is important to survive and pay taxes and salaries during the war. ' It seems that Lviv IT Cluster had a plan to relocate employees of member companies from the high-risk eastern region to western cities such as Lviv before the invasion, but the invasion started when the plan was activated. ..
Andrew Pavliv, Lviv's largest software developer and CEO of N-iX , which has 2,000 workers in its office, said, 'We are constantly alerting to what might happen. People have to flee to the shelter, 'he said, but he continues to provide customers with about 70% of the traditional service. 'Work is also an escape destination where you don't have to read the news,' Pavliv said, claiming that work can be a distraction under difficult circumstances.
Sombra , a software engineering company with more than 200 employees in Ukraine, also has IT workers engaged in developing code to ship to clients, while employees working as sales volunteers for war activities. It is said that there is. 'We need to work to generate revenue and we can send all the revenue to the military,' said Viktor Chekh, CEO of Sombra.
Some companies have evacuated their employees outside Ukraine, and SoftServe , Ukraine's largest IT outsourcing company, has evacuated half of its 2000 employees based in Ukraine to Poland and Bulgaria. The other half was also relocated to western Ukraine. N-iX's Pavliv also has a crisis management plan to move all employees from Ukraine to neighboring countries if Russia controls most of the country. 'I don't want to talk about that. In the worst scenario of Ukraine being occupied, people would leave Ukraine. I sincerely hope it doesn't.'
Some IT workers who continue to work in Ukraine join the government-established ' IT Army ' to participate in attacks on Russia and Belarus. According to Reuters, the IT army is attacking critical infrastructure such as the Belarusian rail network used to transport soldiers and GLONASS , a satellite positioning system used by Russia as an alternative to GPS.
Many sites such as Russian government agencies went down after the formation of the Ukrainian 'IT Army' --GIGAZINE
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