I was a Full Stack Enginner Intern at Headout. I started off my internship by working in iOS Application by designing and writing logic for Accounts tab in the application. Account tab includes Login, Logout option via Facebook, Wallet History of the user, Earning Credits and other options for the user. Apart from accounts tab, I learnt how deep links and deferred deep links work in an application, which was used for referral credit system. I got to learn about the MVC Architecture which was a plus point from the internship. There were also alot of minor changes in which I made my contribution such as integrating Algolia search, designing and writing logic for explore feed when the user is logged in or not logged in, improving city search.

I got my hands dirty by working in the mobile web application and backend side of things at Headout. Adding functionality such as adding a YouTube video for a product, improving schedule displayed for a product were something that I implemented. Improving websites metadata and sitemap for better indexing and Search Engine Optimisation, tracking user events for web push notifications were also a part of my project. A small project in my plate was to crop and upload multiple images on the go when content of a product was being added/modified.

Working as an intern in a startup like Headout was really one of the best experience you could ever have. You have complete freedom over what you do and how you do it. You can convey your own idea(which is highly appreciated) and how it would help in overall growth of the company. There is a flat hierarchy present throughout the company and you can go and talk to anyone anytime, be it CTO, CEO or COO. It will be common to see CTO will working late at night till 4 and sometimes the entire night. Everyone in the company are really passionate about their work and their contribution. They definately work hard but party much much harder. I was lucky to be a part of 7 day workation(Work + Vacation) with Headout at Goa \m/ (during my first week at work).

Tech team at Headout was one of the best. We not only focussed on what would help the product but we also had an excitement to learn new technologies. There used to be daily standups, WTFs, session on wide array of topics such as Android, RxJava, Spring MVC, Optimisations on web development and a lot more is still going on! I had joined the company with an expectation to do something out of the box, something exiciting and to contribute significantly to the product, and Headout gave me more than I expected.

At Adobe Systems, I was a part of Adobe Analytics Team. We defined our own problem and then went about solving it. Our team worked on Context Aware Media Content Analysis, in which we predicted the context in which a media story would be read. We defined the Context of a user as one of the following activity - sitting, lying down, walking, transit, running.

During my internship, I also developed an Android Application - ProReader to test our hypothesis. The hypothesis that we thought was that users tend to read different media articles based on its Context. The analysis was done mostly in R.

The experience gave me an exposure to applied research that goes on in big industries. How should you go about defining your problem statement, solution approach, gathering data and verifying your results are most important questions that you need to answer. At Adobe, I was fortunate to develop an acumen for applied research.

At Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, I attended lectures on basics of cryptography, and also learnt about basic practical crypto tools.

I also worked on a small project under Dr. Sushmita Ruj. The project was was to implement a paper - Key Management Scheme for Distributed Sensor Networks. Sensor Network can be considered as an undirected graph with source and destination vertices and we have to send information through this network.

We analysed how the network parameters like diameter, average degree changed when a node is compromised by an adversary. The implementation was in C++ using networkX Library. The internship at ISI gave me an initial exposure to the field of cryptography and its applications in cyber security.