Darja Šmite is a professor of Software Engineering at Blekinge Institute of Technology and a part-time research scientist at SINTEF ICT. She has dedicatedly focused on understanding the impact of globalization and offshoring in software companies for more than a decade. She has conducted research with and for a number of international companies such as Spotify, Ericsson, ABB, Emerson Process Management, Boss Media, DXC Technology and Telenor, and has insights from working with offshore vendors in China, Croatia, India, Latvia, Poland, Portugal, Russia, and Ukraine.