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April 25, 2023
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Tech Strategy
2025
Ukraine
🧭 A technical strategy isn’t about chasing the latest tech trends — it’s about making smart decisions based on the business, the team, and available resources.
During this meetup, we discussed:
- How a CTO adapts the technical strategy to the company’s stage of growth
- Why a great tech leader must first understand the business needs
- What priorities to choose: security, scalability, or speed of entry into new markets
🎯 The key takeaway: tech strategy always depends on context — the stage of the business, the resources at hand, and the role of the CTO. In one company, a CTO might still write code; in another, they act as a bridge between developers and business stakeholders.
It all starts with the question: What does the company need right now — stability, scale, or speed?
Meetup speakers
CTO @ SHALB
Volodymyr is CTO at SHALB – the company delivers full infrastructure support, security consulting, and DevOps services for projects worldwide. Now he manages SRE and DevOps teams and provides architectural planning and private cloud design consulting.
CTO @ Unstoppable Domains
Bogdan involved in IT and startups for his entire 15 years career. He has a deep understanding of all engineering aspects of the software development process, leadership, management, and QA. In his free time, active open source developer and Kyiv Ruby community member.
R&D Director @ Ajax Systems
Oleksandr, hands-on technical, 16 years in IT and 13 years in different leadership positions. His specialization: forging teams and delivery processes, building infrastructure, and designing common architectural solutions for people in cloud, mobile, desktop, and infrastructure departments at Ajax Systems.
Director of Engineering @ Turnitin
The moderator is Yana Mykhailenko, CTO of Turnitin, an international company that ensures the integrity of education and is a leader in anti-plagiarism solutions. She is a judge and mentor at international competitions and hackathons.
Upcoming events
Business Security Strategies
In the first summer evenings, the 19th meetup of the series will take place, where technical leaders will discuss cybersecurity in business and product development.
CEO and Founder @AmonSul
Coordinator of the Cyber Security Program at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
AI Implementation
Over the May holidays, tech leaders will meet to talk about how they are implementing AI in development and business processes.
Founder @ Stealth AI Startup, @ XSight
Director of Engineering @ Turnitin
Conference | How to Become Great CTO
In the last days of July, DEV Challenge, in collaboration with UNIT.City, will bring together Ukraine’s tech leaders, entrepreneurs, company and startup founders, CTOs and managers to discuss the most pressing and essential topics in technology, business, and leadership.
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