There were 200,000 Ukrainian developers in the country in 2020, according to Amsterdam-based software development outsourcing company Daxx, which says that 20% of Fortune 500 companies have their remote development teams in Ukraine. The developers and other Ukrainian civilians are being forced to defend their homes and cities from Russian bombs. Many are still working from home, supporting the local defense effort by day while sending in their deliverables at night. The chief financial officer at a San Francisco-based software licensing company said in a story posted to the internet on Tuesday that all deliverables are off the table. He said nothing of you expected other than to let us know how we can help. The lead front-end developer fled to his parents 40 km outside the city to get a defense service to get his employees out of the conflict zone. Ukrainians in IT-related fields are also using their skills for the fight at home. Employees at a local digital marketing agency in Kyiv are helping carry out cyberattacks against Russian entities. A local Telegram channel dedicated to crowd-sourced programmers has nearly a million subscribers. One of the co-founders of Labs42, a software developer fromMoldova, described one of his designers based in the northwestern Ukrainian city of Lutsk. The late night sender sent logo ideas. He said that he always paid incryptocurrencies. A start-up manager said that his Ukrainian girlfriend was going to return to her homeland to fight, but would still work for his company.
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