Invictus Capital

Position: Full Stack Engineering Intern
Time: July 2018-August 2018
Location: Cape Town, South Africa

During the summer of my sophomore year I interned at a Blockchain and Cryptocurrency startup. From here, I learned more about what having a daily job in a tech company was like. I joined the daily standups of the software engineering team as well as occasional meetings with the founder and marketing teams to discuss my projects.

I handled multiple small projects as well as one big one. My main project was creating a dashboard for updating the company's balances. I got to start the project from scratch and build both the front end and back end myself. This full-stack approach really taught me how to create a user friendly app, on both the front end and backend, and how to design better front ends for easy integration.

For other projects, I created grpc services and researched different ways to create a wrapper class that converted REST API calls into grpc services (JSON -> protobuffs), and setup testing for other grpc services using Locust. I learned and utilized a lot of skills for this internship. These included:

• Writing GRPC services
• Containerization through Docker
• Container Management with Kubernetes
• React.js
• Falcon
• RethinkDB
• Google Cloud Platform

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