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Swiss startup iProPal kickstarts its India journey

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Swiss startup iProPal launched its platform in India on 20th July 2019 at Swissnex India, Consulate General of Switzerland. iProPal’s platform enables remote job seekers and providers to post their profiles and requirements, and intelligently matches the seeker’s requirement of skills, time and budget with the best IT developers.

iProPal provides opportunities to work on niche IT technologies like Blockchain, Machine learning, Python, etc. Uniquely positioned in Switzerland, iPropal aims to bridge the upcoming shortage where Swiss companies will face a shortfall of 25,000 qualified IT specialists by 2024.

At the launch activity, the founder of iProPal, Jakeer Mohammad, presented the key features of the widely used platform to the strong software developers community gathered at Swissnex India. He talked about the opportunities in the Swiss market as well as the work culture in Switzerland. He also went on to emphasize the demand among his Swiss clients for the highly skilled workforce in India followed by extensive Q&A with the developer community in India.

Also present at the launch were Vivek Prakash, the Co-founder of HackerEarth and Nabomita Mazumdar, a business woman considered one among the top 20 HR influencers in India. Vivek talked about the high quality of India’s software developers. [HackerEarth is the platform partner for iProPal. Developers have to solve HackerEarth’s multiple coding challenges to join the community of developers on iProPal’s platform]. Nabomita presented the changing global landscape of employment culture. The talks were followed by a panel discussion on the benefits of remote working.

Through the launch, iProPal received 300+ sign ups from India on their platform. To join the community of remote developers interested in working on Swiss projects, visit the iProPal website.