Aishwarya’s Blog

Hi, I’m Aishwarya. You can call me as Aish, in short 🙂 I’m a graduate of Electronics and Instrumentation and worked as a consultant for SAP services. My interest in Computer Science started to develop when I met my husband. He is a software engineer at AWS and when I saw him building features and projects that millions of people use, I got so inspired. I started to take few Python lessons and ended up enrolling in Computer Science at Oregon State University.

I also completed Cloud Nano degree Program by Udacity, where I got to learn about different AWS services and built a little version of Amazon Photos. This project got me an internship at a startup called, Heirloom. I worked as a full stack engineering intern for a couple of months, building client facing components of the product. Then, I got a full-time job as an SDE at Expedia Group. My work involves in building tools to aid the developers at Expedia Group.

I’m aiming to develop my skills in AWS and gain technical expertise in backend development. My goal in the future is to contribute to a software that millions of people use in their daily life. With that said, I also want to be an inspiration for other students, share my knowledge and guide them, like how my husband was for me. This is kinda like a stretch goal, but yeah, will be happy if that happens 😀

I like to work with is React.js and Node.js. Most of my web development projects are built using them. One of my favorite is the Multi-User Photo Album Application, where I got an opportunity to put my knowledge in AWS to action. I created a GraphQL API to let users upload and delete photos. This project also used AWS AppSync for accessing photos stored in S3. Also, I used AWS Lambda to show the photos as thumbnails. Overall this project was a great learning for me, especially in the backend side.

It’s been three years since I joined this degree at OSU. I have completed all other courseworks and Online Capstone Project is my final course to complete before graduation. Web Development, Introduction to Databases and Mobile and Cloud Software Development were some of my favorite courses. I had so much fun working with the team and I hope for the same in this course too!

I’m hoping to utilize my skills in this in Capstone Project. So my pick of project would be something that involves mobile or web development with some strong backend work. I think ‘Dating App for animal adoption’, ‘Help Save Craigslist’, ‘Bike Collective’ would be perfect.

Finally, apart from professional life, I enjoy hiking. I have started to develop an interest in winter hikes. I also snowshoeing and looking forward to take ski lessons this winter.  This is a picture of me snowshoeing at Steven’s Pass.

I also like to do acrylic painting, kickboxing and cooking. This is one of my recent painting that I followed from a Youtube tutorial.

Alright…that’s it about me 😉 I’m looking forward to continue this blog with my project updates and so excited to start working with my team!