As a Software Engineer Intern on the Messaging subteam of the Data and Compute team, I worked on adding a feature called reverse fetch to the asynchbase library library that is used to make scans on the HBase messagebus. After adding the feature, I also started on its integration into the Box backend in which it is used to fetch the most recent events in a particular user’s folders.
Tech in the World is a fellowship program during Harvard’s January winter break in which a team of five software engineers travel to a nonprofit partner in a developing country to prototype a needed application. I was a part of the January 2015 team that traveled to Lima, Peru to work on an app that could track tuberculosis medication adherence for Partners In Health’s Peru branch Socios en Salud.
From May to August of 2014, I worked as a Software Developer Intern at the Microsoft Foundry program in the Boston Microsoft New England Research and Development (NERD) center. My team and I worked on a civic tech app called Engage Boston that focused on promoting community engagement and civic service in Boston. The app allowed users to view public events from all over Boston, check in at them, and build a verified civic resume that they could use if becoming a volunteer or running for office.
I worked as a fellow at engageSpark in the Philippines for one month, where I learned about their online SMS campaign platform for nonprofits and businesses. Through the platform, users are able to set up engagements such as community announcements, prenatal care reminders, and medication lookup through SMS in many countries all over the world.
Tools: Django, MOTECH, CouchDB, Nexmo API
In the summer of 2013, I spent three months working at Jana Care, a medical device startup, in Bangalore, India. They were working on a web and Android app called Habits for diabetics to track their glucose levels, food intake, and exercise. This was my first technical internship. I owned several projects both on the main Python application and on the Android app. A brief description of each project in chronological order is below. Much of the code is proprietary but I have included some code for a plugin I created that became open sourced.
Tools: Django, Python, jQuery, JavaScript, Android