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

  1. Spell checker of food input - On the web app, as user typed in their food item, a real-time prediction dropdown would show possible foods, by order of most to least likely in terms of number of swaps.
  2. Plugin to enable client side cropping - Used HTML5 Canvas to create a jQuery plugin that enables cropping of a pic on the client side, so that a large image does not have to be sent to the server or stored on it. Complete code on GitHub
  3. Encryption and Decryption - Encryption on the Python web app and decryption on the Android app
  4. Prototype Android app - Modified ODK Collect to create Android app for community health workers to triage diabetes and iron deficiency patients. I worked with one other intern on this and followed the protocol as prescribed by the Public Health Foundation of India.

For more about the company Jana Care, visit their website at http://www.janacare.com/
For a snapshot of my time there, check out my blog post for the Office of Career Services which supported my grant for the summer