The two work colleagues Dominik Thiede and Fabio Greco came across the Master's degree programme in Cloud Computing Engineering at Burgenland University of Applied Sciences via a simple Google search.
The content sounded so exciting to the two network experts, who work at Nokia in Germany, that they embarked on the adventure of studying abroad.
"Due to the pandemic, the conditions for us ended up being completely different than expected," explains Dominik. The two had actually assumed that they would be travelling to Austria every fortnight for the courses.
The two electrical engineers came to IT through a work assignment in Spain. One thing led to another and Fabio and Dominik became sought-after SDN specialists.
"Dealing with the cloud is an obvious choice for us in our job. When looking for suitable further training opportunities, it's hard to avoid studying at Burgenland University of Applied Sciences," says Dominik.
Both are professionally involved in the integration of software-defined network solutions. Their employer Nokia has always been very supportive of their studies. "For example, we get two weeks' special leave to write our Master's thesis," says Fabio.
"We put an abstracted network structure on top of the actual network structure," adds Fabio. A lot of the content from their studies brought the two of them added value in their projects.