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Meet Guillermo
Personal Information
Guillermo
Cordero Cuevas
Software Development
• Name? Guillermo Cordero Cuevas.
• Position at FTIAS? Software Developer.
•
Resides at? Formerly Sanlúcar de Barrameda, in
Spain.
• Hobbies? Sports, gaming and programming.
• Favourite Cuisine? Mediterranean.
Career Information
1. What made you choose FTIAS? I was looking for a Company, in Europe,
for my Erasmus Internship and I found FTIAS. I’ve never heard about Malta
before but after some research I thought it was the best destination for a
student and the perfect place to practise my English. My internship lasted three
months and at the end of it FTIAS offered me to stay working together with my
crazy and friendly team.
2. Your experience at FTIAS? I was employed with FTIAS as a Junior
Developer three years ago. It was my first job as a Developer, so the past years
At an archery range, in Lija, with some of his frineds.
have been very challenging but also very rewarding. Big thanks go to my
colleagues, for their continuous support, and for making every day at the office an unforgettable one. Currently I’m also receiving training for my
new role as Lead Developer and it´s a very exciting experience since I´ve never been in a middle management position and I have a lot to learn.
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3. Describe your main responsibilities at FTIAS? My main
responsibilities include developing and maintaining web applications
within Webapps (our internal framework) and ftias.com (the
Company’s website), giving support to staff members on the
mentioned frameworks, together with tackling the most urgent tasks,
to maintain and ensure the integrity of our web server.
a) What do you enjoy the most? The best part of my job is that
there’s always room to learn something new. Every day new
technologies and utilities emerge and so one will be able to tackle the
same problem in different ways. So research is continuously needed
to keep up to date in software development. More than that I always
challenge myself to improve my work and share my knowledge with
my team.
b) Most difficult aspect of your job? Sometimes I have to switch
between a lot of different tasks and it’s very easy to lose the train of
thought of the task I was working on, before I switched task. Also, it’s
difficult for me to understand some terms that staff members use to
describe their issues, since it’s hard to know everything about all the
web applications we developed for FTIAS.
4. How do you imagine your life in five years’ time? I don’t even
know what I’m going to eat tomorrow let alone to imagine myself in
five years. Joking apart, in five years’ time, I see myself in a flying
DeLorean .
Guillermo, enjoying the majesty of a
Golden Eagle, in a shelter for abandoned and injured animals.
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