Life of a Strava Intern — a Summer Blog Series

Varun Pemmaraju
strava-engineering
Published in
3 min readAug 7, 2017

We have the incredible fortune of having a diverse and talented set of summer (and for some, much longer!) interns at Strava. They all share a passion for building a product that inspires our community to unlock their potential, as well as embody the qualities that we value most at Strava.

The annual interns vs. mentors kickball game at Strava Summer Picnic (2019)

As a former intern myself — the only one from the Class of 2015 but one of MANY still at Strava! — I can attest to the responsibilities and trust given to each and every employee here, regardless of level. Likewise, over the last few weeks of each summer, we will be handing over the engineering blog to our interns to talk about the things they are working on and describe their experiences at Strava:

Class of 2022

Class of 2022 in San Francisco on a boba walk

Navika Budhraja — Searching for Success at Strava

Aleksei Bingham — Dependency Injection, MVP, and the all-reliable Android Studio IDE

Ryan Paragas — Opportunity Arises From the Most Unexpected

Sahil Srivastava — SSS: Sahil’s Strava Summer

Nathaniel Crosby — My Summer on The Foundation Team

Class of 2021

3 former-interns-turned-full-timers PLUS 1 current intern — all on one team! (2021)

Dylan Cunninham — Talkback says, “Epic Strava Internship! Double Tap to Activate”

Emily Tomz — An Internship Worth Dyeing For

Sydney Bui — Spending the Summer with Strava on Web Platform

Class of 2021 making the most of remote internships

Class of 2020

Kurt Lamon — Striving in the Time of COVID-19 — My Second Summer at Strava

Erin Beachkofski — Routes Editing is the Real MVP

Chigozie Nna — Whole lot of heat, not a lot of maps

Class of 2019

Class of 2019 at Strava HQ

Clara Tian Scala Practices that Powered Streak Challenges

Daniel Lau You too can Strive as a Non-Traditional Intern

Julia JaschkeIt takes a Team to get FIT

Noa Levi — The Team, The Team, The Team

Cross-team intern collaboration, giving each other Kudos (2019)

Class of 2018

Sarah Tollman (yes, her again)Strava’s Longest Intern Ever Interns Again

Emma Suarez Reaching my Summit during my Strava internship

Sam Barksdale — Running and Scala Services — A Strava Intern Story

Megan Paik — 👍 (Kudos) Reacts Only

Xin Yi Chen — Optimizing Testing For Server Driven Mobile Development at Strava

Kevin Bunarjo — An Exploration into the Inspiration of Memes

Daniel Schofield — Upgrading Kafka at Strava

Class of 2017

Class of 2017 with CEO James

Lindy Zeng Co-workers Who Strive Together: An Insight Into How Tessa Groups Activities

Annie Graham Fired Up On My Strava Internship

Sarah TollmanStrava’s Longest Internship Ever

Kyle Ryan My summer at Strava

Zach IsaacsEnabling Integration, Collaboration, and Innovation with the Strava API

Lindy Zeng Tessa: 1,000,000,000 Strava Activities, 1 Spatiotemporal Dataset

Aidan PieperA Summer of Strive

If you are interested in applying for an internship at Strava, feel free to reach out to me. Once we open up positions for next year, they will be posted here!

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Varun Pemmaraju
strava-engineering

Chief Banter/Camaraderie Officer and occasional Staff Software Engineer on Geo/Maps - Strava