My story

Where it all started

I was born in Moldova and moved to Spain when I was around ten. I grew up here, alongside my mother and my sister, and this is my home.

I went through secondary school and then studied Web Application Development in Oviedo (2013–2015). My first job was building websites and custom apps with Java, PHP and JavaScript.

How I got into SAP

One day, driving with my boss at the time, we saw an SAP logo. He explained what SAP was and told me it had a great future, a world where you could learn and grow a lot. It stuck with me. A few months later Capgemini called me with an offer: I could join them in Java or in SAP. I remembered that conversation and chose SAP.

In 2015 I joined Capgemini in Langreo as an ABAP consultant: maintenance, incidents and enhancements. I was lucky to be surrounded by people who taught me a lot, and that is where I learnt what working with good practices, rules and standards really means.

Discovering Fiori

At Capgemini I also met Jose Antonio, one of my best friends, who has been by my side ever since, always personally and often professionally too. He handled the Fiori developments, something I didn’t know and that, coming from web development, hooked me straight away. I asked him for help and he sent me material in his spare time. Since I couldn’t neglect my ABAP work, I learnt Fiori in my own free time.

In 2016 I got a call from Barcelona to join KPS as a Fiori developer with ABAP experience. I was upfront: I had very little Fiori experience and had learnt almost all of it on my own. They trusted me anyway. I packed my bags, moved to Barcelona and, for the first time, started living on my own.

Double-parked

One of my first Fiori projects was a mobile app for the delivery drivers of a well-known beer brand. They pulled up at each bar, refilled the tanks with a hose and filled in a form in the app. We had discussed everything with the client’s IT team, never with the people who would actually use it.

After go-live I finally met one of those drivers. He told me the app worked well, fast and without errors, but that to fill in the form he had to stay double-parked, with the cars behind honking at him. Every stop was a stressful moment, and the app, without meaning to, was part of it.

While he was talking, I kept thinking of ways to fix it, and I understood what had gone wrong: I had never stopped to think about who would use it, how, or in what situation. That is where my passion for user experience and design thinking was born. Ever since, I’ve tried to go beyond what I’m asked for. I don’t want users to have to complain before something gets fixed: I want everything to feel so simple and comfortable that it never even crosses their mind.

Going freelance

At KPS I learnt a huge amount and worked with colleagues I’m still very fond of. But I wanted more challenges: more clients, other ways of working, seeing and learning more. Freelancing looked like the best way to get there.

It was quite scary: I didn’t have a single friend who had started their own business, and Fiori was still very young. Looking into it, I found I could stay employed and register as self-employed at the same time, so that is how I started, with Averlance, on projects for clients in Finland.

Those were tough months. I would finish my workday, get home and sit down at the computer again for other clients, while still trying to keep learning. A few months later I left KPS to focus only on freelancing, and that is how I worked for several years.

That period gave me exactly what I was looking for: lots of different clients, other ways of working and the responsibility of delivering whole projects. I was Fiori Lead on several projects at once, went through major S/4HANA upgrades and made the jump to the cloud with RAP and CDS. I’m really glad I went through it.

Along the way, much more important things happened than work: in 2017 I met Anamar, in 2020 we adopted Bambi, our Andalusian podenco, and in 2022 we got married.

Where I am now

At the end of 2025 I decided to go back to being an employee. After years as a freelancer, I wanted to grow inside a company again: take on roles with more leadership, lead a team, work side by side with others and grow with the company.

That is how my time at Zoi began. I’m making the most of everything a company can offer: training, certifications, SAP events and learning from my colleagues. And I’m deeply involved in everything AI brings: defining good practices and processes, building corporate agents and creating a shared knowledge base so the people coming after us can grow faster.

And the leadership I was looking for has arrived: in November 2026 I became one of the company’s “leads”. It’s a role that goes beyond the technical side: supporting colleagues through coaching and mentoring so their path in the company is as smooth as possible, and helping them grow both professionally and personally. Being trusted with something like this is one of the things that has excited me most.

My next steps

I’ve been in the SAP world for more than ten years and, even so, I’m very aware of how much I still have to learn: new technologies, methodologies, good practices and ways of working. And above all, the functional side: modules like MM, SD or FI, or the retail world, which I’ve worked with for years but never really gone deep into.

I think now is the best time to do it: with AI, learning is easier and faster than ever. And the better you understand business processes, the more options you have to design and improve them. That’s where I want to grow next.