I didn’t choose software engineering. It chose me. My first job was site content management using a html redactor. The manipulation of the content was pretty cool and exciting for me and had a permanent impact: I decided that I wanted to further develop myself as a software engineer. After a couple of years I became a full stack developer, and nowadays I mostly work with back-end technologies and DevOps engineering.
One of the most exciting aspects of programming for me is to see that the code you developed is used by actual people, affects, and improves their everyday lives in so many ways. You release a product and see people interact with it, use it, getting work done with it.
It is motivating to see something I built come to life. It gives me energy to create something that didn’t exist before. It also gives me joy to implement interaction between structure and dependencies within a complex application. Playing with algorithms, frameworks, methodology is like fixing a puzzle or making a puzzle of my own.
The time management process helps me organize my work more efficiently, because being busy isn’t the same as being effective. Every morning or the evening before I make a plan on how to divide my time between activities. I sort activities by priority, complexity and time consumptions to make my day as productive as possible.
It is my priority to have a healthy work-life balance. Beside my main job I am an aerial hoop instructor and a competing athlete. This is a huge part of my life and brings me a lot of energy.
This year was difficult for all of us, I miss my group classes and students, but also it gave me the opportunity to give online and private classes. This summer I am going participate in the national IPSF competition in professional senior category. This is a big event in my life, I spend almost all my free time preparing for this competition and I hope everything will go smooth.
My Cuurios-story
After one and a half years living in the Netherlands and feeling more confident as a professional as well as in my social life, I decided to change my job: that is when I applied to Cuurios. Cuurios got my attention as it is a fast-growing start-up and they need the right people to grow.
Working at a start-up allows me to try a lot of different opportunities and responsibilities, even that weird one that I didn’t think I would ever like but find out that I did. I came into Cuurios as a full stack developer, but now I feel comfortable in a lot of different areas such as DevOps engineering or as a back-end guild speaker, just to mention a few.
The Cuurios team when sees a problem, they think of an innovative and original way of solving it. They are the best people to learn from. They continue to challenge me when I present a solution. They have a different approach than I do, that gives me a broader understanding of the different ways to find solutions.
