![Federico in Dubai](https://assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com:443/7beb5311-75a4-0049-50f5-8f58fd55aba7/46157d48-af95-4458-ad0f-9304f580b230/federico-benetiz.png)
How did you first come to do remote work?
I was living in London working for Morgan Stanley, and I wanted to go back to live in my home country of Uruguay. I talked to them about what I wanted to do, and they told me I could work remotely in my country for six months. I actually ended up working for three years more from Uruguay.
So why did you explore other remote work opportunities?
At some point I knew my current agreement was going to finish, so I started looking for something else. I loved working remotely, and I loved working from home, so I started to look for remote opportunities.
Then I found this job on Crossover as a manager.
What excites you about your job?
It’s been six years since I joined, people are starting to work remotely. Crossover was doing it for years before hiring me. I feel we're about a decade or more ahead of other companies.
When I talked to my friends or other people, they can’t believe the things we're working on. For example, now we're working on a high frequency, low latency application, which can process up to 1 million transactions per second.
![Federico leading the charge at the recent Trilogy engineering conference](https://assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com:443/7beb5311-75a4-0049-50f5-8f58fd55aba7/c3b68e3f-510e-4b2f-b7dc-3f763710f195/federico-benetiz1.png.jpg)
Tell us more about this application!
It's an industry changing product. That's not something you can do in any company. It's actually very difficult to get to create a product from scratch that is a high-frequency low latency application like this one.
Normally you work on products that are already made. I just have to change small pieces or I need to adapt them to the cloud. In this case, we started from scratch.
How did Crossover help you?
It's not difficult to find a job, it's impossible to find a job like this with the type of work I’m doing here. Working on this latest technology, and this high-frequency low latency application? You wouldn’t be able to find a job like this not only in Europe, but in any country.
It’s a one in a lifetime chance you have this opportunity to have such a crucial role in an industry changing product. I am able to be part of this because of Crossover.