
Boris Kontsevoi is a technology executive, President and CEO of Intetics Inc., a global software engineering and data processing company. The Ukrainian international IT services industry emerged from the Soviet Union's admired mathematical education and Ukrainian scientific school of early computer science in the '90s and, in the last two decades, has become a nearly $7 billion export industry with about 285,000 specialists. Yet on February 24, 2022, Russia started a full-scale war against Ukraine. Even with the experience of a similar invasion in 2014, many clients and prospects understandably began to worry for their teams, products and future this time around. Let's look at what happened to the Ukrainian IT industry after six months of the war.