April 25, 2023

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18:00

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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

Speaker
Oleksandr Berezianskyi

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.

Speaker
Bogdan Gusiev

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.

Speaker
Volodymyr Tsap

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.

Moderator
Yana Mykhailenko

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.

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