Dhaval Desai’s Post

I am in my last week of the 14 week long summer internship as MTS(intern) at Nutanix. I just thought of sharing my internship experience. First thing first, I was throughout surrounded by a pool of such talented software engineers, that I felt I am getting smarter just by hanging there :P. As a full stack developer, I was under the impression that I would be focusing on just the frontend and backend 101’s, i.e, React, backbone or flask development best practices, But I got to learn so much more about networking, operating systems, bash scripting and file systems. The courses which I have been avoiding till date became so much intuitive and actually made sense. Learning these concepts opened new gates of possibilities as I started linking the web-applications that I had built earlier and how they can be overlayed on top of lower-level networking or file systems APIs. I was given a perfect playground for implementing a distributed service with elastic search, flask, and ReactJS built on top of native low-level APIs. I built a tool that provides a super easy analytical view to the user who would otherwise have to write a bunch of bash scripts to just pull in the data and then write another bunch of bash scripts to re-format the pulled data. It feels awesome that my application is now in production, and it solves a real-life problem. Remote summer internships can get very isolating, but a huge shoutout to Miriam Karpilow and Sanuja Das for making it so much fun with the regular breakout sessions for all interns to know each other. I can’t believe we had a magic show and a session to make-your-own cocktails! Going through the challenges was not easy, especially in a tight constricting timeframe. I did find myself lost at times not knowing for sure, for what I did made sense, or should I even make that change, will it add value to the project? I feel when you are working on an independent project it is very important that you get feedback on a regular basis, or sometimes a mere thumbs up. I got that from my super manager Veera Tammineedi. I do not think I would have completed the project without his support, so thanks a lot trusting me with the project! How do you sift through a code base of thousands of lines and end up finding that one 5-10 line function is all you need to override! I had a very adept mentor Praveen Kumar Annam, who tutored me through the internship, and guided me through the code wormhole. I have mixed feelings as I know I am getting back to the last semester of my dream school, but there is a part of me that I know for sure is going to miss the daily team meetings! #firstpost #nutanix #summerinternship2021