Company
AvantLab development center located in St. Petersburg, Russia,
but their services are oriented to Western market, for the most part.
in the Netherlands:
After gaining sufficient experience as ordinal software
developer and project manager in western software outsourcing companies
( Novavox ( Switzerland ), debis Systemhouse (now t-systems ) ( Germany
) and BuzMe.com (now RingCentral, Inc ) ( USA ) ), Yaroslav Bykov
decided to set up his own company. He has a computer science background
( System Engineer ) and received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Sciences
(2001) at the St. Petersburg Institute of Informatics and Automation,
Russian Academy of Sciences. After some time of searching of first
clients, he has found a dating agency, called OneHello (2003), in the
Netherlands. Yaroslav and his developers in St. Petersburg implemented a
number of features and services for OneHello's broad range of
activities. After approximately one year of successful joint work,
OneHello was bought by an even bigger international company ( RSVP ).
Unfortunately, the new owner didn't hold much interest in further
development. The good job and reputation of AvantLab company, however,
attracted Proteon Web-Architects, who initially implemented OneHello web
portal and work in close collaboration with AvantLab. Later, one more
customer from the Netherlands supported AvantLab with new projects, this
company was Halotec Interactive, the development and integration firm.
These two customers from Netherlands supply new projects and
continue investment in the form of teaching new technologies to AvantLab
employees.
in Finland:
In September 2004 Yaroslav Bykov has met the Finnish
organization FinPro, that encourage AvantLab to go to Finnish market. In
November 2004 Yaroslav Bykov was invited to Helsinki, to the seminar
“Experience and the possibilities for Finnish companies”
within the FinPro's Russia ICT Connector Project.
In April 2005 Yaroslav Bykov participated in “outsourcing
Russia Event” in Oulu, Finland. This meeting demonstrated the
growing interest of Finns in many high-tech areas, in particular in
mobile phone industry.
In June 2005 two experienced C/C++ developers started to learn
development in Symbian OS (for mobile phones) to gain experience and
good reputation to AvantLab. The company has completed the projects, and
they were estimated high and company earned good reputation. References
can be provided on your request.
In September 2005 Yaroslav Bykov visited the ICT Helsinki week,
where he accumulated information about the potential clients.