This week's Auxo Spotlight is on Alex Massardo, Senior Solutions Architect! Learn more about Alex and his insights through our conversation below.

⚙️ What's your Unqork journey?

I began using Unqork in early 2020, right before the world started falling apart due to COVID. I had just graduated from the University of Georgia with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and landed a job with KPMG, building on a few different low-code platforms. For a while, I was questioning whether I wanted to stay in tech or put my degree to use. Over time, I realized that the thought process of engineering translated nicely to software development. In both fields, I would be applying the same problem-solving methods. But in tech, there would be limitless growth opportunities, and frankly, I had a better chance of staying employed as a young professional starting his career during a pandemic. I’ve been using the platform all day, every day ever since and have a large body of work to look back on proudly, with much more to come here at Auxo. Even without a traditional computer science background, it teaches you all the fundamentals of web development.

🎤 What’s one thing about Auxo that you think people would be surprised to know?  

As a young consultancy, we have people coming from all sorts of backgrounds with different opinions on how a project should be run. Our leadership puts a lot of time and effort into gathering feedback from all projects and implements them with concrete changes. For instance, one of our highest ranking leaders has a series of standing 1-1s across the full spectrum of our development org-chart to gather feedback directly from individuals. As a company, Auxo is humble enough to admit when we get something wrong and ambitious enough to improve upon any area of our delivery model to make our lives better and our jobs easier.

💥 What do you find most exciting about working at Auxo Solutions?

What excites me the most is watching the growth of new developers. When a new developer comes into our company, goes through training, and can immediately start contributing with efficiency on a project, I feel pride in the system we’ve worked so hard to put into place from the first interview all the way through our delivery model. What interests me most is how much I have to learn from my colleagues. Rarely does a day go by where I don’t pick up a new piece of information from our team that will make me better at my job.

💡 What advice would you give to someone looking to enter your field of work?

• Don’t let a deadline inhibit your curiosity. When I’m in my day-to-day problem-solving mode, I often come across unexplored tools, methods, or past solutions that could be the answer to my problem, but an impending deadline can deter me from exploring it. In these instances, I have to remind myself that it’s important to feed my curiosity while trusting in myself to still meet my deadlines.
• Maintain your integrity. Owning up to your mistakes and improving upon them is the fastest way to earn the trust of your teammates, and it demonstrates that you’re a student of the job.
• Find a work mentor and learn from them. In the large majority of occupations, someone has done your job before, and more than likely they did it better than you are currently. Find those individuals, ask them for advice, meet with them on a cadence, and implement their advice.
• Stay organized. If you’re someone like me whose memory is constantly deleting important files, being organized with your meeting notes, to-do lists, and time will increase your productivity and dependability.

👏 Thank you Alex for sharing your keen insights with us!

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