My first taste of professional software engineering — contributing to an enterprise big-data analytics platform. It set the foundation for everything that followed: working in a real codebase, with real data, alongside a real team.
First
Industry internship
Big data
Domain
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What I did
Support development of an enterprise big-data analytics platform
Help build and maintain data-processing components
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Key wins
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Contributed to data engineering and software development for an enterprise big-data analytics platform, gaining first hands-on experience with production data pipelines and team-based development
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Work & life
Where it started
Stepping into a professional codebase for the first time was equal parts exciting and overwhelming. It's where I learned that asking good questions early beats struggling in silence.