One is a software engineer. Systems analyst, developer, full-stack engineer: the job titles changed across Brazil, Spain, Italy and the UK. The question never did. Does it work?
In Brazil, that meant systems for national airport infrastructure and for the electoral courts, places where “it mostly works” is not an answer.
It also meant co-writing a university course that introduced computers to distance-learning students of music, theatre, biology, geography, physical education and the visual arts. If you can explain a microcomputer to a theatre student, you can explain software to anyone.
In the UK, it meant working with a team in the United States on a module that had to respect UK regulations. Which is where the other question started to matter.
The other is a certified GDPR practitioner, with a career that rarely stood still.
Systems analyst and researcher. Requirements analyst, mapping how the work really happens. Business analyst, project manager, and the person running a project management office. An MBA in IT governance along the way. And a university lecturer in Brazil, teaching software engineering, information architecture and project management.
In the UK the work moved to data: commercial organisations, charities, and remote work from the UK for a company in the United States.
Different job, opposite question. Not “does it work?” but “what does it do with people?” Who can see this. Why we keep it. What happens when someone asks for it back.
Most businesses only get one of those questions answered.
The software works, and nobody can say where the customer data goes. Or the policy is perfect, and nobody has ever looked at the system behind it.
If you’ve ever been told something is “GDPR compliant” and had no way to check, you’ve stood in that gap.
Those two people are us.
We stopped working on opposite sides of the gap and started Silogus, so the builder and the practitioner sit at the same table from the first conversation.
Both of us have stood in front of a classroom. It shows: we explain things until they make sense, then we stop.
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