So It Seems That I Am a Java Reactor Developer Now

Posted on May 28, 2023  •  3 minutes  • 635 words  • Other languages:  Español

• What Was I Doing During These Last Months…?
• Mental Health
• Devsu: An American IT Staff Augmentation Company
• So What Are You Doing in Devsu?

What Was I Doing During These Last Months…?

So, about seven months ago I wrote an article where I expressed how despite not really liking Java that much, I got a position in Yacaré as a Java Spring Boot dev.

For me Java is like lemon ice cream, a flavor I would never order, but it’s not bad either. At least it’s not mint slush.

All was nice-ish there. It was not the greatest job either, but my day-to-day responsibilities were almost null.

I even got the chance to meet some co-workers in Santa Fe and Misiones (cheers to Nico and Francisco , even though they were not Applica co-workers, we were part of the same project and worked together in our day-to-day. They hold a special place in my memories).

Here are some random photos of the trip.

↓ Iguazú falls

↓ Argentina - Brazil - Paraguay triple frontier

↓ A Yacaré QR code used as an available pay method in a Misiones supermarket

↓ Santa Fe port at night

Mental Health

One day I started therapy. I can’t recommend enough to anyone who has the chance to give it a go and look after your mental health, is nice.

The two big things that I got out of therapy were:

• Even though I was convinced that I had no more reason to keep living, the fact of dying was scary.
• If I’m going to die, I might as well give a last big shot and make a fresh restart of everything.

So, I made up my mind and put myself a life goal:

If I’m dying, it won’t be in Argentina.

And I did what any young and naive developer does best, start applying to job offers on LinkedIn.

Devsu: An American IT Staff Augmentation Company

My mail inbox was filled with rejected job applications answers, because as a Latin with no visa nor citizenship in any first world country, most HR were not really interested in giving me a chance. Fair enough.

But also got a few positive answers, one of those was Devsu . They wanted me to go through an interview process to maybe get the chance of a Java Spring Boot dev position in an Ecuadorian fintech project.

To be honest, I thought of ignoring this proposition. The interview process was long, and I wasn’t feeling like wasting my free time on it. It consisted in:

• Abstract reasoning tests.
• LeetCode challenges (ChatGPT all the way).
• A week to complete a user story (with tests and all).
• One on one technical interview.

But beggars can’t be choosers, so I did my best in every step and… got the job

So What Are You Doing in Devsu?

I’m part of the dev team in an Ecuatorian Bank. Precisely, I’m the replacement of David , a billiant developer (I knew him just for a week, but he seems brilliant) who is leaving because he’s going to do his master’s degree in Spain.

And here is the plot twist: I’ll be working with Java Spring Webflux microservices, built following Hexagonal Architecture philosophy, deployed in Azure cloud services … And I don’t have any idea nor experience in any of what I just said.

You know you’re not skilled enough, experienced enough, or qualified enough to justify being there, yet you are there

But anyway, I feel very welcomed to the group, and even Devsu went through the logistic problem of getting me a notebook in London (oh yeah, about that, I’m in the UK now. It’s a long story totally unrelated to this new job position)

So that’s a nice catchup of what is my life now… Cheers mate!