The greatest accomplishment of my career
A few months ago, a customer reported an issue that caused users major inconveniences when operating a software tool developed by Siemens. My colleagues and I sat together and decided that I could be the person responsible for checking what was happening and implementing a possible fix. What I didn’t know was that this would become the biggest challenge of my whole professional career. In technical terms, I would have to add two parameters in an XML document and change the algorithm to stop performing its pre-existing calculations using hard-coded values. In other words, that specific routine, which had initially been designed with a mixture of C#, XSLT and JavaScript, should now fetch the parameters dynamically defined by the user in the mentioned XML file. Achieving the expected result, however, was not easy at all. For that, I had the support of a few members of my team and worked hard for two long weeks to be able to present the solution to the client. In the end, everything w...