Intelvision Inspires UCU Students

Intelvision shares experience with UCU students

As a company that wants to make a difference beyond client work, Intelvision often shares its experience with students. On October 28, 2021, our team met students of the Ukrainian Catholic University to talk about the journey companies make from dynamic startups to established firms. The speakers were Yurii Kotula, then CTO and co-founder of Intelvision, Roman Yarovyy, then CEO and co-founder, and Solomiya Oliynyk, HR Manager.

The speakers opened with a short introduction to Intelvision as a fast-growing software company: its core services, its mission and its vision.

At that time, after 4+ years on the market, Intelvision offered full-cycle software development and consulting and had completed 40+ projects. The team included 20+ web application experts and 15+ certified engineers, providing dedicated software development, web application development, and software support and maintenance.

Solomiya Oliynyk then shared her own path. She studied at the Lviv Business School of UCU, now presented as the UCU Business School, and after graduating chose to become an HR specialist in an IT company, at Intelvision. In her view, IT is a fascinating field that kept developing even during the global pandemic, which lets people keep learning and growing at work. She gave the students practical advice on finding their first job in the industry and answered their questions.

Solomiya then handed over to Yurii Kotula and Roman Yarovyy.

They described how Intelvision started, its early startup phase and its evolution into a recognized provider of software services. They also shared what the journey from concept to the first completed projects looked like, naming two of the earliest: Leogene and Vaillant.

According to the speakers, networking is the starting point for the successful development of a startup.

Just as important, they said, is a professional and motivated team that drives development forward, and clear, well-designed business processes that let a young company grow without chaos.

The speakers also pointed out that education in Ukraine is relatively accessible compared with many other countries. Because good education and continuous learning help people reach their professional goals and stay in demand, students should treat it as an opportunity and an advantage.

Yurii and Roman then explained how the IT market is structured. It is diverse and layered: large companies generally serve large businesses, while smaller IT companies cover the needs of small and emerging businesses.

After that overview, they turned to a question many founders ask: how does a startup grow into an established company and compete with the giants of the market?

According to Intelvision's founders, steady growth is possible when the team has the right attitude, a positive outlook and confidence.

With the right attitude, a young company accepts that large companies set the trends that change the market. With a positive outlook, the team watches those trends, takes them into account and builds them into its own way of working. And with confidence, it learns from the experience of large companies and may even work with them.

The journey from an ambitious startup to a recognized company is demanding. But with good networking, a motivated team and well-designed business processes, it is possible to grow and make a difference, as Intelvision set out to show.

Why join the team of Intelvision?

Intelvision works to create a comfortable and dynamic environment where a close team of specialists can grow personally and professionally. Today the company describes its team as distributed: engineers, analysts, designers and delivery managers, each assigned to one client engagement and staying with it. The benefits listed on the careers page include a personal development plan for each employee, periodic reviews based on technical evaluation and English level, refunds for courses and other professional learning, help with professional certification, weekly English lessons, flexible working hours and participation in the Lviv IT Cluster. Our post on software developer certification with Intelvision explains how the certification support works.

What happened since: an update from October 2026

Five years after the UCU meeting, here is how the story continued, based on what Intelvision publishes on its own site today.

• The company grew. The 40+ projects of 2021 have become 100+ software products delivered. The About page describes a European software engineering company that works with 50+ companies across Europe, with a 5.0 Clutch rating from 14 verified reviews and an average client relationship of over three years.
• The services widened. Intelvision began by placing senior developers in client teams, and that model still runs. Next to it, the company now builds and modernizes software, implements AI in real business workflows and runs a Strike Team, led by Wayne Arendse, for projects that are slipping or stuck.
• The leadership changed. Yurii Kotula, who spoke as CTO in 2021, is now CEO and CTO, as listed on the About page.
• The early projects are still on record. The Vaillant case study is published with its scope: a mobile and web solution for order management with CRM integration, built in three months by a team of four.
• The UCU connection continued. In September 2023 Intelvision supported TEDxUCU, held at the Ukrainian Catholic University, as part of its support for educational initiatives.

What the 2021 advice looks like today

The three things the founders told students in 2021, networking, a motivated team and clear processes, are still visible in how the company describes itself.

• Networking. Intelvision's About page tells how the business started: one founder needed a developer fast, Intelvision solved it, and he referred the company to others. That referral is how it found its focus.
• A motivated team. The company reports 89% team retention, and 95% of its developers stay with clients for 12 months or more.
• Clear processes. Every engagement is now planned across strategy, operations and technology and measured against one business outcome.

One thing has changed for students entering the field: AI tools are now part of daily engineering work. In the 2026 Stack Overflow Developer Survey, 73% of respondents who use AI coding assistants or agents use them daily. Intelvision's current engineering vacancies ask for confident daily use of AI coding tools such as Copilot, Claude or Cursor, while keeping the engineer responsible for correctness, testing and quality. The company also defines seniority by behaviour rather than years on a CV: engineers who have led delivery under pressure, can make and defend architecture decisions, coach the people around them and take ownership of a product as if it were their own.

For students at UCU and elsewhere, that is a useful target: learn the fundamentals well enough to judge what the tools produce, practise explaining your decisions, and look for teams where you work directly with the people who make product decisions. If that sounds like you, see the open roles on our careers page.