Beetroot, a Swedish information technology staffing company, on Sept. 19 opened an academy in Poltava to train website developers on the Wordpress platform. Twelve students will undergo a three-month course after which they will be fully employable within Ukraine’s expanding IT sector, reads the company news release.
Called Beetroot Academy, the frontend
developer center is supported by the Swedish International Development
Cooperation Agency through the Swedish embassy in Ukraine.
Ukraine’s $2 billion outsourcing market has
been experiencing double-digit growth in recent years. Worldwide there is a shortage of programmers,
and 95 percent of the development work conducted in Ukraine is for foreign
clients.
Beetroot employs some 40 people in Ukraine. Its base of operation is in Odesa, but also employs people in Kharkiv, Kyiv and now Poltava. Having roots in startups, the Swedish IT-resource
company matches developers and designers from Ukraine as well as Moldova with
Scandinavian and American emerging
IT-oriented companies.
