Not another staffing agency. A concierge.
Odesa.co is a US-based tech talent concierge that connects growth-stage American companies with pre-vetted senior developers from Eastern Europe. Founded by Ukrainian-American entrepreneur Val Narodetsky, Odesa was built on a simple observation: the traditional staffing model is broken. Companies waste months on recruiting cycles, pay inflated agency percentages, and end up with developers who leave within the first year.
Odesa does it differently. We operate as a concierge, not a marketplace. Val and Zhanna personally vet every developer, hand-match candidates to your requirements, and stay involved throughout the engagement. The result: 4.2-day average placements, 94% twelve-month retention, and over $2.5 million in direct hiring cost savings for our clients.
We are headquartered in Lighthouse Point, Florida. Our developer network spans Ukraine, Poland, Romania, and Bulgaria. All contracts are US-based. Every engagement starts with a risk-free trial.
From Request to Onboarded
Senior Eastern European Engineers
After 12 Months
Compared to US Hiring
Trusted by Growth-Stage Companies Across the United States
The People Behind Every Placement
Val Narodetsky
Val is a third-generation entrepreneur and Ukrainian-American who immigrated to the United States in 1998. Before founding Odesa, he built and sold three companies in digital marketing and eCommerce, developing a deep understanding of what growth-stage companies need to scale their technology teams.
At Odesa, Val personally handles every discovery call, reviews every developer match, and maintains direct relationships with every client. He built the company on the principle that the staffing industry is fundamentally broken by misaligned incentives: traditional agencies profit from volume, not quality. Odesa profits only when placements succeed long-term.
Val leads all business development, client relationships, and strategic direction. He understands both the American business environment and the Eastern European engineering talent landscape from direct personal experience.
Zhanna Agranova
Zhanna oversees all day-to-day operations at Odesa, managing the talent pipeline, developer onboarding, and client engagement workflows. She ensures that every placement moves from discovery call to onboarded developer within Odesa’s 4.2-day target.
Zhanna brings a rigorous operational discipline that keeps the company running at startup speed while maintaining enterprise-grade quality standards. She manages the vetting pipeline, coordinates between client engineering teams and developer candidates, and handles all contract and compliance administration.
Her operational systems are the backbone of Odesa’s 94% retention rate: developer-client matching is not a one-time event but an ongoing process of alignment, communication, and quality assurance that Zhanna personally oversees for every active engagement.
Why Odesa.co Exists
Val Narodetsky grew up watching his grandfather and father build businesses from nothing in Ukraine. When his family immigrated to the United States in 1998, he carried that entrepreneurial instinct with him. Over the next two decades, Val built and sold three companies in digital marketing and eCommerce, learning firsthand what growth-stage American companies need to scale — and where the existing staffing industry consistently fails them.
The staffing industry is built on misaligned incentives. Traditional agencies charge a percentage of salary, which means they profit most when they place the most expensive candidate, not the best one. Freelancer marketplaces optimize for volume, cycling through thousands of profiles with no quality control. Both models produce the same result for the companies that use them: slow hiring, high turnover, and wasted money.
The Concierge Model
Val founded Odesa on a different principle: if you have direct, personal knowledge of both the American business environment and the Eastern European engineering talent landscape, you can build a service that is faster, cheaper, and more reliable than anything the traditional staffing industry offers.
Odesa is named after Odesa, Ukraine — a city that represents the bridge between Eastern European technical talent and Western business opportunity. The company operates as a concierge, not a marketplace. Val and Zhanna personally vet every developer in the network, hand-match candidates to each client’s specific requirements, and maintain ongoing involvement throughout every engagement. This founder-led matching process is the reason Odesa achieves a 94% twelve-month retention rate while the industry averages 60-70%.
Built for Growth-Stage Companies
Odesa serves companies in the $5M to $500M revenue range with 11 to 100+ employees. These are companies that have found product-market fit and need to scale their engineering teams fast, but cannot afford to spend $150K+ per US-based engineer or wait 45-90 days for a traditional agency to deliver candidates. They need senior developers who can ship code from day one, work in their timezone, and integrate seamlessly into their existing engineering culture.
That is exactly what Odesa delivers: pre-vetted senior Eastern European developers, placed in 4.2 days, with a risk-free trial and no long-term contracts. Staff augmentation from $45/hr or flat-fee recruitment at $3,999 per hire. No percentage-of-salary games, no retainers, no hidden costs. Just elite engineering talent, delivered fast, by people who stake their reputation on every single placement.
The Principles Behind Every Odesa.co Placement.
Quality Over Volume
We reject the agency model of blasting out hundreds of resumes and hoping something sticks. Every candidate is personally vetted by our team. Only 3% of applicants make it through our screening process. We would rather present you with two exceptional matches than twenty mediocre ones.
Skin in the Game
The 2-week risk-free trial and 90-day guarantee exist because we are confident in our matching process. If a placement fails, we bear the cost. This alignment of incentives is fundamental to how we operate. We succeed only when our clients succeed long-term, not when we close a transaction.
Radical Transparency
Our rates are published on our website. There are no hidden markups, no surprise invoices, no percentage-of-salary calculations. When you work with Odesa, you know exactly what you are paying before you sign anything. Transparent pricing is not a marketing tactic. It is how honest businesses operate.
Speed as a Feature
Our 4.2-day average placement time is not accidental. It is the result of maintaining a pre-vetted network of 250+ senior developers who are ready to deploy. Speed reduces opportunity cost. Every week your engineering team is understaffed, features do not ship, deadlines slip, and competitors gain ground.
Eastern European Excellence
Ukraine, Poland, Romania, and Bulgaria produce some of the strongest engineering talent in the world. These countries have deep technical education traditions, rigorous computer science programs, and a culture of engineering craftsmanship. We are proud to connect this talent with American companies that value quality.
Founder-Led, Always
Val and Zhanna are directly involved in every engagement. You will never be handed off to a junior account manager or routed through a support queue. When you work with Odesa, you work with the founders. This is deliberate. Accountability starts at the top, and it is the reason our retention rate is 94%.
US-based. Florida-headquartered.
Odesa.co is a US-registered company headquartered in Lighthouse Point, Florida. All client contracts are US-based with US legal protections. Our developer network operates across Eastern Europe with 6-8 hours of daily timezone overlap with US East Coast business hours.
- Lighthouse Point, Florida, USA
- Developer network: Ukraine, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria
- 6-8 hours daily timezone overlap with US East Coast
- US contracts, US legal protections, US invo
- Clutch Top Recruitment Company - Florida 2025
Ready to meet your next engineer?
Book a 15-minute discovery call with Val. No sales pitch. Just a direct conversation about what you need and how Odesa can deliver it.
🔒 Staff aug from $45/hr · Recruitment $3,999/hire · 2-week free trial · 90-day guarantee