Many of Ukraine's 285,000 IT specialists are still working through the war

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Ukraine's 285,000 IT specialists power apps and software around the globe, and many of them are still working from Ukraine as the war rages around them

He and his wife bundled their seven-year-old twins and pet cat into a car and headed west. The family eventually ended up in the central Ukrainian city of Uman. More than a month later, part of Ivanov's life has taken on a hum of regularity as he continues to work at Aimprosoft, the software development firm he cofounded in 2005.

It has also a prominent tech-startup scene. Online-writing assistant Grammerly and code repository GitLab were both founded in Ukraine, though both have been based in the US for several years. Other tech companies, like Estonian ride-hailing startup Bolt and neo-bank Revolut, have had staff based out of the country.

Konstantin Vasyuk, the executive director of the IT Ukraine Association, was speaking to journalists virtually from an undisclosed location with air raid sirens in the background,"My employees do work sometimes from bomb shelters," Kobvel told Insider of his Ukraine-based staff."Even if you stay in the safe zone, which is Western Ukraine, you hear the air raid sirens at least twice a day, so it's a routine to go once or twice a day.

 

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乌克兰的28.5万名IT专家为全球各地的应用程序和软件提供电力,随着战争在乌克兰肆虐,他们中的许多人仍在乌克兰工作

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