Since 2008, Inflection has counted some of Ukraine's finest engineers as team members
through a partnership with San Francisco's Svitla Systems. Our way eastern colleagues in
Lviv and Kiev dovetail with our U.S. Engineering team and are able to get crackin' on code
long after our Bay Area engineers are in bed.
Ukraine: GMT +3
Pacific United States: GMT -8
hile many of us know Boris, Andriy, and the rest of the team as they telecommute to meetings, we all
look forward to their frequent trips stateside, as they generally come bearing delicacies both delicious and devilish, especially the перцівка, Ukrainian for "OMG, My Throat Is On Fire…On Second Thought, Pour Me Another."
And while it's sadly true that many of our U.S. team may not get to see our Ukrainian friends on their own turf, that's no reason not to be well versed in fun facts, just in case.
Ukraine, and Poland
are the hosts of the
2012 UEFA football
championship.
In 1715 the first
brewery in Ukraine
was founded in Lviv.
Lviv was the first
European city to
have streetlights.
In 1900, architect
Zigmund
Gargolyevs'kyi's Lviv
Opera and Ballet
Theatre was built,
considered one of
the most beautiful
in Europe.
One can virtually
walk from one end
of Kiev to the other
beneath the shade
of one of its many
trees, especially the
distinctive каштани
(horse chestnut).
Kiev's Antonov, a
major manufacturer
of airplanes, is
responsible for the
world's heaviest
aircraft, the AN-225 .
