THE JOURNEY OF BECOMING AN APPLICATION DEVELOPER THROUGH ACCENTURE

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SINCE COMPLETING HIS APPRENTICESHIP, OMAR GIL MATOS HAS GONE ON TO BECOME A NOTABLE SOLUTION PROVIDER IN THE TECH SPACE.

DESDE QUE TERMINÓ SU APRENDIZAJE, OMAR GIL MATOS SE HA CONVERTIDO EN UN NOTABLE PROVEEDOR DE SOLUCIONES EN EL ÁMBITO TECNOLÓGICO.

If you were to ask Omar Gil Matos where his interest in tech stemmed from, he’d say it started back in high school.

There, he took a class where he developed basic web development skills.

That class piqued his interest, and within a short period of time, he found himself pushing to learn more and use his resources to go beyond what he was learning in the classroom.

“I started doing some side projects on my own, and thought, ‘I might choose this as a career,’” Gil re ected during an interview with AL DÍA.

In 2016, Gil came to the United States from his native Dominican Republic, seeking to continue honing his skills and eventually nding his path within the tech eld.

His journey started when he was introduced to YearUp!, a nonpro t job training program, where he was able to take some software engineering classes.

This led him to then obtaining an internship with a nancial institution as an automation scripter.

However, it was in 2020 that Gil found the opportunity he has today.

That was the year that he began his journey in the Accenture Apprenticeship program.

As an apprentice, Gil worked in the pharmaceutical industry as a Salesforce solution provider.

These are all new concepts for Gil. Therefore, he used that year-long experience as an opportunity to learn.

“My supervisor, my peers, my colleagues, my manager… they took their time, sat down with me to explain every detail that I needed,” said Gil.

Once he learned the basics, he ran with it, always with the mission to deliver and bring solutions to the client.

Si le preguntaras de dónde surgió su interés por la tecnología, te diría que empezó en el instituto.

Un día, asistió a una clase en la que adquirió conocimientos básicos de desa- rrollo web. Aquella clase despertó su interés y, en poco tiempo, se vio empujado a aprender más y a utilizar sus recursos para ir más allá de lo que aprendía en clase.

“Empecé a hacer algunos proyectos paralelos por mi cuenta, y pensé: ‘Podría elegir esto como carrera’”, re exionó Gil durante una entrevista con AL DÍA.

Nativo de República Dominicana, en el 2016 llegó a Estados Unidos, en busca de seguir perfeccionando sus habilidades y encontrar su camino en el campo de la tecnología. Su viaje comenzó cuando conoció YearUp!, un programa de capacitación laboral sin nes de lucro, con el que pudo tomar algunas clases de ingeniería de software.

Dicho aprendizaje lo llevó a conseguir prácticas en una entidad nanciera como programador de automatización, pero fue en el 2020 cuando Gil encontró la oportunidad que tiene hoy. Ese fue el año en que comenzó su camino con el programa de aprendizaje de Accenture.

Como aprendiz, Gil trabajó en la industria farmacéutica como proveedor de soluciones Salesforce. Todos los conceptos eran nuevos para él, así que usó esa experiencia de un año como una oportunidad para aprender: ““Mi supervisor, mis compañeros, mis colegas, mi gerente... se tomaron su tiempo, se sentaron conmigo para explicarme cada detalle que necesitaba”, dijo Gil.

Tan pronto aprendió lo básico, corrió con ello, siempre con la misión de entregar y aportar soluciones al cliente.

Al nal de su aprendizaje, Gil consiguió obtener su certi cación. Desde ese momen-

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By the end of his apprenticeship, Gil managed to obtain his certi cation.

Since completing his apprenticeship, Gil remained with Accenture where he is now an Application Developer Analyst, speci cally as a Python developer working in the telecommunications industry.

Gil highlighted that he is very grateful for the opportunity that Accenture has presented him with, allowing him to feed his interests and improve his knowledge within the tech space.

The Accenture Apprenticeship Program has an even greater and forward-thinking impact, however.

“The apprentice program here, I would say, is where people from different back-