{"id":18,"date":"2022-01-14T04:28:32","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T04:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/manickaa\/?p=18"},"modified":"2022-01-14T04:28:32","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T04:28:32","slug":"blog-post-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/manickaa\/2022\/01\/14\/blog-post-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Post #2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hi there, it&#8217;s me Aish again. In this blog, I want to share about my experience in getting a full time job as a Software Developer. I&#8217;ll also share about my learnings and projects that helped me to land a job at Expedia Group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First thing, I structured the order of courses in such a way that I get the skills early enough to try for internships. I took all basic courses like CS Fundamentals, Data structures, Algorithm and also took web development course to start with small projects and hosted them in Github. I learnt Express.js, Node.js and HTML in the web development course. But, in parallel, I also started researching about latest web technologies and enrolled myself in React.js offered by Udemy. At the end of the course, I had completed two portfolio projects: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Burger Builder Web Application &#8211; React.js and Firebase Auth API, storage<\/li><li>Static website for small restaurant &#8211; HTML, Node.js and Express.js<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to prepare for internships and interviews, I took Introduction to Databases and Mobile &amp; Cloud Software Development courses next. I gained my skills in SQL databases and worked on building two other portfolio project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Generic Toursim Website &#8211; MySQL DB, HTML, Node.js and Express.js<\/li><li>Wastegram &#8211; Mobile App to track the wasted food from restaurants &#8211; Flutter<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I wanted to update my skills in databases and wanted to expand my knowledge in AWS. This made me enroll in Cloud Developer course by Udacity. I learnt the basic services by AWS and put together everything I learned in the form of a project. I built a small version of photo album app, using React.js. I created a GraphQL API using AWS AppSync for accessing photos stored in S3 and let users upload and deleted photos. I also handled the user signup and authentication using AWS Cognito.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Multi-User Photo Album Application &#8211; React.js, AWS, GraphQL<\/li><li>Todo List &#8211; React.js, AWS Lambda, Serverless framework<\/li><li>Udagram &#8211; Instagram on AWS &#8211; React.js, REST API, Travis CI, Docker, AWS EKS<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>These portfolio projects made my resume strong and helped me gain some interviews. I got summer internship at Expedia Group (EG), but COVID-19 had some other plans. Lol. I couldn&#8217;t join EG, but I landed as a full-stack intern at a startup called Heirloom, where I worked in building client facing components of the product using React.js. Reading the blog so far, you would have realized that I used React.js in almost all my projects. Yes, that&#8217;s my favorite \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I luckily got an opportunity to interview at EG again, but this time, for a full-time role. 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