Carlos Rodríguez Cabrera is from Arrecife and studied Technical Engineering in Industrial Design in Gran Canaria. After working "in a thousand things", also as an engineer in an office solutions studio and temporarily as a technician in the Arrecife city council, he had an inactive period after the pandemic, so he decided to take a programming bootcamp.
"I had many acquaintances who had switched to this sector and were doing well, so I said I'm going to try. I liked it and I started working from Lanzarote for a company in Madrid," explains Rodríguez.
Thanks to the contacts he made with the programming course, he got an interview with the Madrid-based business group Bauss Band, which proposed him to open a software development subsidiary. And thanks to the fact that he presented the business benefits of the Canary Islands Special Zone (ZEC), Rodríguez was able to open it on his island, Lanzarote.
Among other advantages, the ZEC, whose main objective is to diversify the economy of the archipelago, guarantees companies a reduced corporate tax of 4%. To do this, they must employ at least 5 people if they are in Gran Canaria or Tenerife. This requirement is reduced to 3 employees in the case of Lanzarote and the other islands.
"The good thing about this job is that you can get clients anywhere in the world"
Bauss Software already has two years of experience on the island dedicated to the development of digital programs and Rodríguez is its administrator and project manager. Currently, its main projects are aimed at digitizing banking services. "Our biggest project right now is a neo bank, a digital bank. Sometimes we do development from scratch, other times we are hired to do maintenance, infrastructure updates, integrate new tools...".
The Bauss Software team is currently made up of six people. "Three of us are in Lanzarote, two in Tenerife and one in Gran Canaria, all developers specialized in different programs and technologies."
Rodríguez highlights among the labor advantages of the developers the fact that they can "work at home and have some flexible hours", but he also remembers that if a project in production for a client fails, sometimes you may have to fix it "at a very bad time."
Asked if there is room for more development companies in Lanzarote, the administrator of Bauss Software recalls that "the good thing about this job is that you can get clients anywhere in the world."