Hi there, and welcome to one of our employee stories! In this article, we’re sharing some personal anecdotes with you to give you a better understanding of our company’s culture, beliefs, and goals. With this approach, you should be able to better comprehend the various roles inside our business, as well as their tasks, responsibilities, and motivations.
So, meet Max, one of our Partner Managers, and have a look at our open positions on our Career Page.
HI MAX! TELL US A BIT ABOUT YOUR BACKGROUND – WHAT BROUGHT YOU TO TXTURE?
When I was about to finish my studies in international economics and slowly started looking for jobs, Txture would write an email to all students and tell them to apply for a role. I already found it interesting because it was a field I was really interested in. When I came home that evening, my girlfriend back then said, “Hey, did you see that email from that startup called Txture? This really has your name written all over it.“ This sealed the deal for me that I really wanted to work there. I then applied , met for lunch with the two founders, and ever since then I’m here and happy about how it worked out!
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE CLOUD TRANSFORMATION TO ONE OF YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS?
Well, a lot of companies have programs that run on their servers that stand in their basements. Eventually, they always have to get new hardware and maintain that stuff, which really becomes a pain in the ass. Hence, if they move to the cloud, they can get rid of that problem and even improve their IT landscape with dedicated cloud offerings that support their business model.
WHAT DOES YOUR TYPICAL DAY LOOK LIKE?
Typically, when I come into the office, I check my mail and start working on the urgent ones. At 10, we have our daily partner team standup where we discuss our current work and obstacles. Afterwards, I structure what I want to get done during the rest of the day and plan that. The rest is typically a lot of meetings in between doing the other work, a lot of which is planning and sorts.
WHAT PART OF YOUR ROLE DO YOU FIND MOST EXCITING?
Working together with all those international and really big partners we have is super exciting and a huge opportunity. I’m glad that I earned the trust and support to go to all these meetings and make major decisions on how we want to move forward with some of the biggest companies in the world.
WHAT ARE YOU PASSIONATE ABOUT OUTSIDE OF WORK?
My little family, ski mountaineering, all kinds of biking (road, mountain), & mountaineering
DO YOU HAVE ANY BOOK/PODCAST/MEDIA RECOMMENDATIONS?
● Never split the difference
● Outliers
● Off-Topic: Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings is something everyone should have read in my opinion.
WHAT ADVICE DO YOU HAVE FOR TALENTS IN THE PARTNERING & SALES SPACE?
Just do it.
ANYTHING YOU WANT TO ADD FOR OUR FUTURE EMPLOYEES?
In literally every job, there are good and bad things. So take the bad with the good and don’t put too much thought into things that aren’t necessarily running your way, but learn from them.
HOW CAN A CANDIDATE APPLY FOR A JOB AT TXTURE?
Have a look at the open positions posted on our Career Page and send us an E-mail. We’ll be happy to get to know you and your motivation to be part of our exciting journey!
Hi there, and welcome to one of our employee stories! In this article, we’re sharing some personal anecdotes with you to give you a better understanding of our company’s culture, beliefs, and goals. With this approach, you should be able to better comprehend the various roles inside our business, as well as their tasks, responsibilities, and motivations.
So, meet Martin, one of our Txture Senior Backend Developers and have a look at our open positions on our Career Page.
HI MARTIN! TELL US A BIT ABOUT YOURSELF – WHAT BROUGHT YOU TO TXTURE?
I’ve been a part of the Txture team from the very beginning, even before the company was officially founded. Txture started out as a research project which then turned into a university spin-off. I was part of the initial research team while I was doing my PhD at the University of Innsbruck. My research topic (model repositories and data versioning) happened to coincide with the technologies needed to build Txture, so it was a very natural fit. After I finished my PhD, I switched to Txture as a full-time employee.
WHEN WOULD YOU SAY TECH GREW FROM AN INTEREST TO A CAREER?
When I was six years old, I got my hands on a GameBoy. Ever since that day, it was crystal clear to me that I wanted to program games. That led to a high interest in programming as a whole. My curiosity eventually brought me to University where I learned that there were many other interesting applications of the same software engineering skillset. I still develop games as a hobby, but my career turned out to be tied to database and backend development. The tools are mostly the same – but their application is radically different.
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE CLOUD TRANSFORMATION TO ONE OF YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS?
Moving to the cloud is like replacing PowerPoint with Google Slides, or from a DVD to YouTube. You’re not bound to a given device anymore. You can consume a service anywhere and at any time. You trade control over details for ease of management.
WHAT DOES YOUR TYPICAL DAY LOOK LIKE?
I usually start my day by working through emails and notifications, then there’s the daily standup with the team at 10:00am. The rest of the day is really different every time. I spend a lot of time working on new features, fixing bugs as well as profiling the software to find performance bottlenecks. Team communication is also very important – planning meetings, discussions, presentations and (of course) a joint coffee break.
WHAT IS A DEVELOPMENT CHALLENGE YOU RECENTLY HAD TO OVERCOME?
Some of our users have a very large number of assets in their Txture repositories and they noticed that some filters are a lot faster than others. That’s because predefined properties (such as the Asset Name) had an index on them in the database, whereas there was no support for indices on user-defined properties.
Adding the possibility to have indices on custom properties in combination with the versioning capabilities present in Txture was a major challenge, because (unlike the Asset Name which always exists) a custom property only exists for a certain period of time – it can be created and deleted as required, and even the property type can change over time. I’m very happy to see this feature finally released in Txture 27.
WHAT PART OF YOUR ROLE DO YOU FIND MOST EXCITING?
The best part about software engineering is when you’re able to find a solution that not only works but is also general enough to work for use cases you’ve never even anticipated – but it’s still getting the job done.
Code can become a terrible mess really quickly, but keeping complexity in check and writing Code that is clean, future-proof, and elegant is what I’m striving for every day.
WHAT ARE YOU PASSIONATE ABOUT OUTSIDE OF WORK?
I definitely qualify as a gamer. I play all sorts of video games in a wide variety of genres, across several platforms. I also develop games as a hobby and as another way to apply my software engineering skills in a totally different fashion and learn some 3D art along the way. I also spend a lot of time playing classic pen-and-paper games (such as Dungeons & Dragons) and trading card games.
Oh, and did I mention sci-fi and fantasy movies?
DO YOU HAVE ANY TV/MUSIC/BOOK/PODCAST/GAME RECS?
With a planned release in February next year, Elden Ring will finally be available on all major gaming platforms. It’s the love child of Hidetaka Miyazaki (creator of the brilliant Dark Souls series) and George Martin (author of A Song of Ice and Fire, a.k.a. Game of Thrones) set in a dark and epic medieval fantasy world. The development studio, From Software, has a great track record, and it looks like an extremely promising game.
WHAT ADVICE DO YOU HAVE FOR TALENTS IN THE BACKEND DEVELOPMENT SPACE?
Be curious, keep your knowledge up-to-date, and try to absorb as much knowledge as you can. For example, Txture made the switch to Kotlin in the backend about two years ago, and we haven’t looked back ever since. At the same time, don’t jump on every hype train out there – and the best way to avoid that is to know about the alternatives.
Watch presentations (YouTube is a great resource for all experience levels), get in touch with people, get informed, learn from their mistakes and experiences, and keep in mind not only what is currently going on but also where the tech journey is going. And do yourself a favor and read “The Pragmatic Programmer” and “Clean Code.“.
HOW CAN A CANDIDATE APPLY FOR A JOB AT TXTURE?
Have a look at the open positions posted on our Career Page and send us an E-mail.
We’ll be happy to get to know you and your motivation to be part of our exciting journey!
Quelle: Txture GmbH
