Chernihiv IT Cluster ran ProsvITa 2026 at Chernihiv Polytechnic National University, June 22–25. Engineers from local and international companies spent four days on what production work actually looks like: development, cloud, security, career skills, and how to get your first foothold in open source.
Percona has backed the Cluster for years. Evgeniy Patlan, Manager of Build and Release Engineering at Percona and a researcher at the university, opened the intensive on June 22 with two sessions for students. He has been in this loop a long time — meetups, lectures, conference committees, curriculum work with faculty.
What was on the program
Software development, portfolio pet projects, cloud architecture, cybersecurity, IT management, and marketing. A career track covered LinkedIn profiles recruiters bother to read. Sessions ran in person and online.
Evgeniy’s sessions
Shift Left: Why Security Comes First, Not Last
Security as a design constraint from day one — CI/CD, release engineering, SBOMs, reproducible builds from real pipeline work.
Commit to Your Career: Getting Started in Open Source
Where to find a first project, what counts as a useful contribution, how that reads on a resume when you are starting out.
Chernihiv IT Cluster
The Cluster has united Chernihiv-region IT companies since 2017. ProsvITa is one way they connect lecture halls to production systems — students ask engineers who ship software questions textbooks skip.
If you are a student in Chernihiv, check the schedule at chernihiv.it.
If you are elsewhere and wondering where to start in open source: pick a project you already use, find an issue labeled good first issue, and send a PR. A clear bug report with reproduction steps counts too. That is how most of us got in. ∎
