[13] From September 2005 to June 2006, Shmyhal was Deputy General Director of a company called "LA DIS".

[13] For the first four months of 2014, Shmyhal was a consultant to a People's Deputy of Ukraine Roman Cherneha [uk] (from the party UDAR).

[15][13] From May 2014 to December 2014, Shmyhal worked as Deputy Head of the Lviv Oblast regional office of the Ministry of Revenues and Duties.

[13][5] In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election Shmyhal was an independent candidate in Ukraine's 121st electoral district, located in Lviv Oblast.

[5] From 2018 to 2019, Shmyhal served as Director of the Burshtyn TES which is the largest electricity producer in Ivano-Frankivsk, and is part of Rinat Akhmetov's holdings.

[15] In January 2024, Ukraine's National Agency on Corruption Prevention accused Shmyhal of exposing the identity of a whistleblower who had reported wrongdoing by the head of the Commission for Regulation of Gambling and Lotteries.

[23] If Shymhal is found guilty of exposing the identity of a corruption whistleblower, he would be fined and denied the right to hold certain government positions for one year, and be included in the Unified State Register of persons who have committed corruption-related offenses.

[13] Kateryna is a former co-owner of the Lviv “Kamyanetsky Bakery” and a local nextbike bike rental outlet.