Talents for Ukraine

Usenko Yaroslav

Technology

Founder and CEO of Strike Sense, engineer, visionary

Yaroslav is the founder, CEO of Strike Sense, a company that develops innovative acoustic sensors for military applications. He combines the experience of a soldier and an engineer, transforming the challenges of war into life-saving technological solutions. He is developing advanced systems to enhance battlefield safety, actively engaged in startup ecosystems with an international dimension. In the defense technology sector, he participates in Ukrainian programs and collaborates with European partners. He leads the scaling of the startup and is laying the foundation for YARUS Corporation. Facebook

I’m inspired by Henry Ford — for creating the assembly line and the principle of systematically building empires — and by Richard Feynman and Nikola Tesla, for whom science was not a profession but a kind of magic. They taught me how to play with the laws of nature.

Thoughts, feelings, and actions are not enemies. They are elements of a single cycle designed to support you.

I enjoy difficulties — they’re fun and creative.

I don’t need to be successful. I need to be myself — to do what comes from the heart and not worry about the outcome or what others might say.

Make mistakes boldly. The map in our head is just a shadow of the vast territory.

Atlas Shrugged turned my worldview upside down — it articulated what I had felt but could never put into words.

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