Software Engineering Intern
- At InstaHub the Summer of 2020 I worked on the software engineering/web development team. My role was to work with my 3 team members to design and implement a full-stack IoT architecture including sensors, databases, and a visual dashboard. I was assigned many tasks including transferring their existing website to Squarespace, database design, backend design and work with front end developers using React.
- I led the transferring of the website, which was a node web app, to the Squarespace platform so that it could be edited by the marketing team with ease. Some parts of this required using custom code snippets for JavaScript functionality. I was a key part of the research and design of the backend workflow. I helped research and design the flow of data from the IoT sensors to a database to the React dashboard. I worked with AWS IoT & Lambda and was able to store our sensor data in a relational database. While I was not developing, I researched ethical hacking methodology and worked through CTFs involving many topics such as wireless hacking, Metasploit, burp suite, SQL injection, etc.
- This summer I learned a lot about AWS’s different services such as IoT, Lambda, Cognito, RDS, and DynamoDB. This directly expanded upon my knowledge from my last semester learning about EC2 and RDS. I expanded my knowledge on Node.js and using it to handle web requests and querying databases. I became proficient with GitHub as we used this as our version control. I dipped my toes into React JavaScript framework for our frontend application as well. Lastly, I greatly expanded my knowledge of Linux systems and security analysis.