Life at Proprium: Filip Resanović

When I started working at Proprium as a computer science student, I did not even know that the no-code world existed, let alone what it had to offer. And yet, that is exactly what became my main skill.

LIFE AT PROPRIUM

Filip Resanović

6/16/20264 min read

Who I am and how I ended up at Proprium

I am a computer science student and programming is not new to me, I understand logic, algorithms, and problem-solving. What I did not know was that there is an entire world of tools that use the same way of thinking, but without writing code. Make, Zapier, SmartSuite, I had no idea any of this existed when I started working at Proprium in February 2025.

What learning looks like at Proprium

What surprised me right from the start was how new people are brought in. We were not handed a pile of documentation to read or video courses to watch on our own. Instead, we were given a shared test project, the three of us beginners and we learned the tools together on it. We solved problems along the way, explained things to each other, and through that process picked up fundamentals that would otherwise have taken weeks of individual learning.

That approach worked really well for me. Nothing teaches you faster than a situation where you need to deliver something functional, even if it is just a test project. I had not encountered this kind of onboarding before and I have nothing but praise for it.

What my day-to-day looked like

My role was focused on automations, as part of the Digital Transformation team. That concretely means: you analyze a business process, understand what repeats and what takes up time, and then you automate it. We regularly had shared working hours calls, sessions where we sat together, brainstormed, and worked through challenges someone on the team was facing. That format is incredibly useful because you get answers faster and you also learn from other people's problems.

Two projects I particularly remember: an automation that turns every calendar event into a task in SmartSuite, once it starts running, it saves hours of manual entry every week. And a data migration from ClickUp to SmartSuite when we switched the platform we were using as our business CRM or database, there, automation is not just convenient, it is a prerequisite for a clean transition without losing information.

Every finished automation carries a specific kind of satisfaction: the moment you see the green checkmarks and realize everything is working as it should, and you notice the real impact of what you built. For someone coming from programming, that feeling is familiar, but in Make or Zapier it is somehow more visually immediate.

Something I did not expect: direct client work

This is the part that surprised me the most personally and that, looking back, gave me the most. I was a student doing technical tasks, and then I got the opportunity to be directly present on calls with foreign clients and present the automations we had built.

There are nerves involved, I would not hide that. Before the first call, you get that familiar feeling: "Am I prepared enough? What if they ask something I cannot answer?" But that is exactly the experience that no university project can simulate. You are presenting something you built, to a real person, in a foreign language, and you see their reaction in real time. It is a lesson in communication, confidence, and craft, all in one.

What Proprium looks like from the inside

The atmosphere was the first thing that greeted me. There is real patience and real interest in how you are progressing, it is not just a nice sentence on a hiring page. When I did not know something about Make and at the start I knew nothing, nobody assumed I should. Everything could be learned.

To be honest about one thing: Proprium is a dynamic environment. Specifically in working with SmartSuite, changes came up often, renaming tables, moving them to different solutions, deleting attributes. Any such change can break automations that depend on those elements, and then you have to bring them back in line. For someone who prefers a predictable and stable schedule, that can be a challenge. But for someone who functions well in a moving environment and likes solving problems on the fly, it is honestly one of the better ways to learn.

What I learned and what I carry forward

When I look at what I know today that I did not know before my time at Proprium, the list is long. The no-code world that was completely foreign to me is now natural. Beyond that, I learned how remote work functions – how to organize your day, how to communicate in a team without a shared office, how to be accountable for tasks without anyone physically watching. And I learned what it looks like to work in a smaller company, where every person has real impact and where your work visibly and directly contributes to the result.

For all of that, I am truly grateful to Proprium.

What I would tell a student thinking about Proprium

Do not worry if you do not know the tools. Proprium will assess what you bring and build your tasks around that. If you have the basics of logical thinking - and as a student in a technical field, you probably do, you will learn the rest, and you will not do it alone.

Make and Zapier, when you start looking at them, are very similar to programming. There are blocks, logic, conditions, loops - just without syntax and code. And when something "clicks," the satisfaction is very real.

Direct conversations with clients? Accept them the moment you get the chance. There is no better teacher.