Andreea is an upbeat millennial that enjoys a good learning opportunity and truly cares for the people she works with. She joined Endava as an intern and 3 ½ years later she is a Senior Developer who takes her roles as a Line Manager and Career Coach seriously and enjoys passing her knowledge on to her colleagues. Want to know what drives Andreea’s continuous learning mind-set? Read her full story.
Describe your professional path within the company.
My career path in Endava started about 4 years ago when I joined the Endava
Internship Programme. After a couple of months as an intern, I joined the
company as a full-time employee. Although I’ve worked on only 2 commercial
projects so far, I’ve grown a lot in that time, mainly because I was lucky
enough to be exposed to numerous challenges along the way.
At first, I joined a big team - we were about 40 people in Iasi, Romania –
working on aggregating multiple social media channels, I significantly improved
my technical skills by shadowing some people I really appreciate and respect,
and to whom I will always look up to as role models.
Later, I was able to share my knowledge with all my colleagues, take ownership
of entire system functionalities, find solutions, present them to the client
and further implement them. I also acted as a Scrum Master for a while on the
project.
The project I’m working on now is a big change and a step forward for me, as it
brought me new challenges and learning opportunities. The team started
out very small, so there was no bridge between the client and us, as we didn't
have a Project Manager, Business Analyst or a Scrum Master assigned to lead the
project and interface with the client. We were just 2 developers in Iasi,
with just the email address of the Product Owner and we had to organise a
client visit after less than a week on the project.
So, we took full responsibility for establishing a good partnership with the
client, delivering in the best way we could. We can proudly say that almost 2
years have passed since then and we are still working together. We have a great
trust-based relationship with our client. This is very important for us,
considering that we were the first nearshore company they worked with and they
initially had some understandable fears that we managed to overcome.
A while ago I also took on the role of a Line Manager for this project and
during this time I’ve learned some important lessons. Besides the payment
platform we’ve worked on, we are at the moment also involved in another huge
product which offers B2B services such as identity management, contract, and
subscription management.
To sum up, each experience I had in Endava contributed a lot to my progress and
helped me become who I am today and for that, I have many people to thank.
