Russian tanks may parade down the streets, but many Ukrainian IT workers at outsourcing firms cling to coding as a vital source of income, and a reminder of normalcy.
On February 24, most residents of Kharkiv awoke at 5 a.m. to the same sound: Explosions. Russia had begun its invasion of Ukraine by attacking military locations surrounding major cities including Kharkiv and Kyiv.
My small team is the tip of the iceberg. An estimated 85,000 to 100,000 outsourced tech workers call Ukraine home, according to Gartner, and Kharkiv is a major hub for outsourced development companies like Ciklum, NIX Solutions, Sigma Software Group and Exadel. Whether you realize it or not, many of the devices and applications we use daily are developed by people in Ukraine.Anna’s story “They’re bombing us,” Anna told said when she called a couple hours after the bombing began.
After two days without electricity, power came back on and allowed her and her husband to connect with overseas clients. Despite all the uncertainty surrounding her, she wanted to ensure that the projects she was responsible for could continue, providing jobs for everyone on her team. But traveling on the roads had become complicated. Most bridges in the area had been destroyed by the Ukrainian forces to protect the city. Many roads were littered with shrapnel and other debris from the constant fighting in the preceding days. A flat tire during the drive could leave them stranded outside, in the middle of winter, during a war. The path away from the city involved skirting through fields on dirt roads, and then a full day of driving once they made it onto the asphalt.
Eugene’s story Eugene is a developer and senior team leader working for a small, outsourced development company called Techstack, also in Kharkiv. Even before the invasion, he had started to think about leaving Ukraine, but his deep roots made it a difficult decision. His wife has started a growing coffee shop chain within different malls in Kharkiv, and their 5-year-old son was about to start school. They each have parents living nearby.
The journey was hard on Eugene’s young son. “Yaroslav looked green when we arrived because he was so tired,” Eugene recalls. Four days of driving had exhausted the entire family. Yaroslav is too young to understand what is happening, and why anyone would want to inflict this kind of pain and destruction on the people of Ukraine.
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