The Flex Factor with... Jannik

Please give a warm welcome to Jannik, our next team member to sit in the hot seat. In this edition of The Flex Factor, find out how Jannik juggles being both an optimization engineer and customer lead, as well as what get's him excited in the world of tech.

Tell us what you do at Flexciton?

I’m an optimization engineer and technical customer lead working in the customer team. As an optimization engineer, I work on our models and the general back-end code to make sure we create optimal schedules that meet the client’s requirements.

As a customer lead, I speak to our clients to understand their unique challenges, so that I can translate them into requirements for our solution and liaise with our team to prioritise the right bits of work we want to get done.

What does a typical day look like for you at Flexciton?

To start my day I like to have a check in with my clients, to make sure their apps are working as expected and there are no queries waiting to be handled. Other than that, there is no such thing as a typical day.

Some days will be full of programming to create solutions for new problems we encounter, or to iron out bugs that made their way into the code during previous work. Other days might have lots of meetings to align our work with the engineering & product teams, or to speak with our customers and technology partners.

What do you enjoy most about your role?

My role has loads of connections within the company, which means I get to work with many super smart people to achieve our goals. I also really enjoy learning about the many different challenges our clients face and create solutions for them, and occasionally I get to visit clients and peek inside the cleanroom, which never fails to amaze me.

If you could summarise working at Flexciton in 3 words, what would they be?

Challenges, curiosity, intelligence.

If you could have dinner with any historical figure, living or deceased, who would it be, and why?

Sebastião Salgado, the Brazilian photographer. Not only is he an inspirational photographer, he must also be full of stories and life lessons from many years of travelling and reforesting his family's farm land.

In the world of technology and innovation, what emerging trend or development excites you the most, and how do you see it shaping our industry?

It’s a very broad trend, but it’s amazing to see AI solutions spreading to more and more people and helping them in their daily lives. You’d think an industry like semiconductors is at the forefront of this, but we can see that there is still a lot of hidden potential which we can hopefully help to unlock over the next few years by replacing some of the legacy technology.

Tell us about your best memory at Flexciton?

This one is really tough because I love all the small moments here, from having a super technical discussion amongst engineers to finding out a new fun fact about each other over some drinks.

If I have to pick a single moment, it would be our surfing lesson near Albufeira during last year’s team trip. It was just loads of fun trying it out (and failing) together.

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