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CA API Management Community Member Spotlight – Nicolas Afonso

By kristen.palazzolo posted Oct 02, 2015 12:38 PM

  

Get to know Nicolas!

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CA Communities username: Nicolas_Afonso

 

Company: Nexworld

 

Title: Information System Consultant

 

Location: Paris, France

 

Why did you choose a career in IT/IS?

Firstly because I grew up with the technologies and consumer web boom (I was born in early 1990). I was immediately amazed by the enormous range of things we could do, simply with an interconnected "plastic case". Later I discovered computer science and I decided to be acting in this new digital world. Solving problems has always been a pleasure for me. Today everyone can revolutionize the world, upset the economy without financial means. You just have to have THE right idea … and a keyboard! Against this background, my career choice was pretty obvious.

 

What value does the CA API Management Community bring to you and your company?

I see the Community like a virtual University. I can share with other CA API Suite users, bests practices and advises. Often, I find  users which faced same problems I've been through. Furthermore CA experts shares documentations, videos and tutorials on products which are very useful. So definitely, from my experience, I can say that the community gives me many valuable elements and allows me to work better, faster, delivering client satisfaction and improving my knowledge of CA tools and API Management at the same time. Moreover the CA Community channel reassures my company. Nexworld, the company I’m working for is recognized for its strong APIs and micro-services architectures expertize in France landscape, we are several confirmed CA Solutions consultants. However during consulting jobs and/or implementation projects, we don’t often work jointly on the same project at the same time with my colleagues - with CA Community, Nexworld knows that at any time, hundreds of professionals and advanced users are available to answer my questions. In return, this is why I’m very proactive too sharing my experience with the community. At last, CA API Management Community can be seen as a very efficient and additional channel to classic support.

 

Favorite dessert: Tiramisu :)

 

Favorite 3 movies of all time: I do prefer series... Nevertheless Inception, Fight Club or The Sixth Sense gave me good memories.

 

Favorite hobbies/interests: cycling (former competitor and eternal passionate), watching TV shows (US ones !) and "geeking" of course (I like to spend hour reading Wikipedia pages, learn last IT tendancies/technologies,  debate with friends on social networks ...)

 

If you were an animal, which animal would you be and why?

A squirrel, because we share some personality traits. It is an agile animal, orderly and long-sighted. It can rise up to bypass a problem. Sometimes loner, it is also a party rocker!

 

 

Note from Kristen: Nicolas - Thanks for being an awesome community member!!! You rock!!

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