Almost a year ago, I graduated from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. During my studies I was really keen on learning how to use new technologies that were trending in that particular time both in the fields of Software Engineering and of IT infrastracture. This led me to start programming and exploring the software engineering world. After several projects in web and mobile development, I decided to do my Diploma Thesis on something that would combine both programming and production-ready (or almost production-ready) frameworks in a more scientific way. This was on cloud robotics.
While I was about to finish this project, I was thinking once again about what I was going to do next. I made those kind of thoughts a few times and I always ended up on the same plan. I really wanted to work for a company which would have a big infrastracture, a lot of knowledge to transfer, willingness to use new technologies and a pleasant environment. I assumed that it is difficult to move from the academic sector directly to the industry. And this assumption was made due to the fact that academia’s main goal is to do quality research, but for the companies… We all know what the main goal is! To my surprise, this was partially wrong and I found this out after a lot of searching and discussions with people of the industry. There are even small companies which give the employees the freedom to experiment with new technologies, understand and extend their capabilities and find use case scenarios in their current stack. And this is what I love. In my opinion, research is a great thing to integrate into the daily work since it makes work more fun and some times more challenging than it is. After taking all these things into consideration, I was almost sure about what to look for.
And here I am. I joined Travian Games as a DevOps Engineer and so far, I learn a new thing almost every single day.