#POLYMATH PROGRAM FREEZES SOFTWARE#
I never could have cared less about the job title on my business cards – the true luxury of being a software engineer is that you can have tremendously satisfying work and an excellent middle-class life without needing to grind up inane corporate ladders and turning into more of a politician than developer.īased on this, all my career changes were based around continuous personal reflection, whether most of my day to day work is satisfying and interesting, whether I’m working with people that I feel we can advance together and whether the output of my work is actually useful to someone or beneficial to society. This means defining the development strategy for future ventures, working along existing ventures to understand obstacles and provide quick, efficient, and innovative solutions, and overall build a stack of solutions that allow the healthy growth of our portfolio and our group.ĭevelopers at Startups working on ideation How did you get to Polymath?
He joined our group to lead the tech department of one of our ventures, Vincu, a recruitment platform that leveraged data and algorithms to deliver highly matched candidates.Īfter 4 years in the role and the closure of Vincu at the beginning of the Pandemic (shit happens in entrepreneurship), Vic transitioned to Aflore to help their technology team grow and tackle the necessary product adoption to the new reality and eventually to Polymath as CTO with one single goal to improve engineering across the group.
Welcome!įirst things first, we want to introduce Vic, our CTO, a Swiss software engineer – passionate about music and mildly alcoholic beverages – with 15+ years of experience across multiple industries, living in Bogotá, Colombia since 2016.
#POLYMATH PROGRAM FREEZES HOW TO#
In this blog post, we worked with our CTO, Victor Baumann, to share some tips on how to be a successful developer at a Startup. Even though developers at startups are one of the most valued assets, it is also known that no all developers match their needs and expectations, and in some cases their work structures. Working at a Startup is an exciting opportunity for developers eager to build from scratch, pitch new/crazy ideas, and be part of a scrappy team that is looking to solve complex problems.