At Camunda, we are very intentional with how we build our culture, because we know our people and our culture are central to everything we do. It’s what makes us who we are and fuels our creativity and productivity.
In this “Meet a Camundi” series, we’ll be introducing you to some of the people who help make Camunda an amazing place to work (and an amazing product to use). We hope that sharing these stories with you will help give you a sense of how we do things here and what it means to be a Camundi.
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What is your name and your role at Camunda?
Adam Urban, Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack. The internet knows me as @urbanisierung.
What experiences have shaped your career and led you to where you are today?
We had a computer at home from a very early age, and when I was about 12 years old, I got floppy disks with Turbo Pascal. Call me a nerd or whatever, but that’s when I started programming. There was no internet back then, so I had to teach myself everything, but I knew: this is exactly what I want to do later.
In the time after my studies, I slipped into various roles: consultant, developer, manager. In the end, I appreciate working as an individual contributor the most and have returned to it. I love solving problems, ideally with code!
How did you learn about Camunda, and what motivated you to join the team?
At one of my previous jobs, I was part of a team that migrated workflows built on legacy state machines into BPMN processes. Bernd Rücker worked as a consultant and helped us with this. At that time, Camunda was still working purely as a consultant company. We then worked with our own process engine for a relatively long time until we finally switched to Camunda.
A few years later, the contact was still there, and Camunda was on the way to bringing the new engine into the cloud. Tim, Collin, and I didn’t want to miss out on this, so we signed up to be the first remote-only team at Camunda to build the SaaS product. And we’re still doing that today (among a few other things).
What excites you the most about your work?
I mentioned at the beginning that I like solving problems. Camunda has always set itself a challenging roadmap. Naturally problems always arise that need to be solved at different levels. I really enjoy working across different departments and different technologies to drive our product forward.
As a fully remote company, Camunda has spent a lot of care creating an intentional remote culture, but “remote culture” can mean a lot of things. What does the remote culture of Camunda mean to you?
Before Camunda, I had never worked remote-only. But if I imagine an ideal remote culture, then it’s the way Camunda does it. I can organize my time completely flexibly, I see other Camundis in person several times a year, and above all, it doesn’t feel anonymous to me. I can always find the right contact person quickly, and if something can’t be handled asynchronously, I can easily switch to a synchronous mode.
What is a project or idea you’ve worked on at Camunda that you’re particularly proud of?
There is so much I am proud of. But there’s one project that I always look back on with great pleasure: it’s 2019, week number one at Camunda. We are in the Berlin office and Daniel Meyer (Camunda’s CTO) is brainstorming with us what a POC of the SaaS product could look like. We leave again on Wednesday, but before we go, Daniel tells us, “It was fun. Next week Wednesday is Company All Hands. I want you to present a working POC then.”
A week later, we presented what we put together over the last seven days. Everything worked, and it was a special moment because it was the first time the process engine was deployed by clicking some buttons on a portal publicly available. And some parts of the POC can still be found in the software today. What a day!
Ten weeks later, Daniel presented Camunda Cloud (the name of Camunda 8 SaaS at the time) at CamundaCon.
Do you have any special traditions or plans for the December holidays this year?
The only tradition we have is that we see the family. For us, the meetings always start at our home on December 24, and on the two Christmas holidays we visit our families that live within a radius of 100km. That may sound a little stressful, but I see it more as us simply having a lot of quality time.
What’s one super fun holiday memory that stands out from your childhood?
There is so much to tell! When I was very young, a friend of my family dressed up as St. Nicholas on St. Nicholas Day. He had a rod with him. I was so scared of him that I could hardly move. When he asked me if I had been good the previous year, I couldn’t get a single word out.
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We want to thank Adam for sharing his story, and we hope you found it as interesting and valuable as we did!
Stay tuned for more stories from our incredible team members in the “Meet a Camundi” series. Camunda is growing fast and on a mission to find the very best talent in the world. Check out our careers page and jobs page and join us to impact the future of process orchestration with Camunda!
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