My kick-start at RoboRana
Let me first introduce myself: I am Melvin September, an applied computer science graduate from Odisee. In this blog, I guide you through my first month.
How RoboRana came into the picture.
After graduating from Odisee this summer, I wasn’t initially looking for a job and began a preparatory program “Master of electronics and ICT engineering technology” at KULeuven. Whilst studying this new program, I received an interesting message on LinkedIn. The header of the message was:
“RoboRana, the intelligent way of working, are you interested?”
A sentence that triggered me to find out more about RoboRana. I found that RoboRana Group consisted of an ecosystem, 6 entities each specialized in its own technology. And I got introduced to Roboest and Codux, both experts in low-code application development with platforms such as the Microsoft Power Platform, OutSystems, and Appian.
The choice was easily made. OutSystems was a platform that I had recently discovered during a guest lecture. The possibilities the platform offered triggered me. So, Codux it was!
The start of a new chapter.
Day one, time to meet my team & get familiar with the possibilities of OutSystems. A course was provided by Codux to discover it all!
In the first week I was able to finish 5 courses! Time flew by, here is what I did:
- Becoming a Reactive Web Developer
- Becoming a Traditional Web Developer
- Becoming a Mobile Developer
- Architecting Sustainable Applications
- Outsystems Developer Cloud (ODC)
Throughout this learning fase, I fell more and more in love with low-code on how it makes a developer's life easier. Outsystems lets you build applications at top speed by using out-of-the-box accelerators and limiting the need of writing out everything in code by using drag & drop widgets. Although I have a background in coding, I noticed OutSystems gave me, as a developer, the ability to focus on the logic and business requirements that the application needed.
I quickly noticed that my knowledge was growing vastly. I was able to build my first Reactive Web application for a fully automated webshop case, within my first 2 weeks, can you believe it?
This way, I attained my first certification “Reactive Web Developer Associate” with enough knowledge. After passing the exam, I received another voucher to plan for certification. I chose “Security Specialist”. I am proud to say that I have obtained the certification with success. (92%)
What will the future bring me?
The first Outsystems project under the name of Codux is being set up right now! This project is a cross-collaboration between two entities of the RoboRana Group, Humain (Business Analysts), and my own entity Codux (Low code development). A roll that I will be talking upon me! I am excited and can’t wait to start developing for our client!
Do you have any questions after reading this blog post or are you ready to start as a low-code engineer at RoboRana? Be sure to let us know! 🐸
RoboRana Group is an ecosystem within the Cronos group focused on process optimization, automation, and data insights. We help companies to accelerate, innovate and evolve by challenging manual, repetitive, and business-critical processes. To stay ahead of the future, we focus on cutting-edge low-code automation technologies combined with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Process & Data Insights.
