The start-up of 20 projects of the European company EPAM Systems in Vallarta is completed.
In order to achieve a new industrial vocation in Puerto Vallarta to accelerate its economic reactivation due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Government of Jalisco, through the Ministry of Economic Development, undertook an economic promotion work so that technology-based companies establish some of their operations at the port, and yesterday the expansion of the company EPAM Systems to the port was made official.
The operations to be carried out by the Belarusian company are in the area of Business Analytics, specializing in Big Data and Data Science, and at least 20 engineers specialized in software will be transferring their work projects to Vallarta in the coming months.
“EPAM is the first company that is already starting operations in Puerto Vallarta to develop software in this place. Vallarta is a destination not only ideal for tourism but also for the development of technology given its characteristics of standard of living and its high connectivity with other parts of the world, especially where software is developed. From the Ministry of Economic Development we have promoted this as a destination of technological vocation… that it does not depend so much on a single activity that is tourism,” shared the Secretary of Economic Development, Ernesto Sánchez Proal.
This will not only benefit the economic spill to accelerate the reactivation of Vallarta, as they are highly paid jobs in the labor market, it will also promote positive dynamics to trigger the development of local talent for the demand for engineers that this industry will require in the port.
“Since its inception in Mexico, EPAM Systems has found in Jalisco the perfect conditions for its development, where talent and the robustness of the ecosystem have been fundamental pieces of its success. Therefore, EPAM continues to bet on Jalisco and now through Puerto Vallarta, which represents an area of opportunity for the technology industry derived from the conditions that have been created in the area, and according to the current demands of the industry and especially of its talent,” added Carlos Quirarte, the company's director of operations.
EPAM has a thousand collaborators in the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area, and will promote and facilitate that local and European collaborators have the option of establishing their work in Puerto Vallarta.