Getting that first internship and keeping it: Full Stack Web at a startup
Completed my first internship as a web developer. What did I learn and How ?
I am a sophomore pursuing Bachelors of Technology(B.Tech) in Information Technology at University School of Information, Communication and Technology, GGSIPU, Dwarka, Delhi.
For the past 3 months, I was working as a Full Stack Web Development Intern at Posify (Product of Unmudl Technologies LLP, New Delhi, India).
Posify help hundreds of food business to run their business: from secure online payments to point-of-sale solutions.
I worked on a lot of technologies( both frontend and backend ) and industrial projects, hence, I thought about sharing the path/resources I consumed in order to achieve the skills that allowed me to start writing production ready code within the first 2 weeks of the start of my internship.
Technologies I worked on:
- a Point Of Sale (POS) Software-as-a-Service(SaaS); used Angular 8 (Nebular, ngx-admin) with Flask for backend. Available @ https://login.posify.in/
- Developed an e-commerce food delivery PWA in Ionic (Angular 8) with Firebase backend. Available @ https://order.posify.in/
- Writing APIs in Flask, working on celery tasks, defining complex models using SQLAlchemy.
- Implementing and using PostgreSQL, Redis and Elasticsearch in Python/Flask.
Before my selection
I applied to their listing on Internshala. At the time of my interview I was only familiar with Flask and vanilla JavaScript. I had a few projects made in Flask up on the cloud and their domains mentioned on my resume, which really helped me. Everything else, I learned alongside work.
Resources(All completely free):
Flask:
- Making a full blog website in Flask: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-osiE80TeTs4UjLw5MM6OjgkjFeUxCYH (recommended)
- APIs in Flask with models and schema: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTZiDnuC86g
- Various Flask libraries: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXmMXHVSvS-CoYS177-UvMAQYRfL3fBtX
Angular 8:
- For JavaScript/Typescript, online education doesn’t get any better than the YouTube channel, Traversy Media.
- Angular crash course to grasp the basics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdf5aTYRW0E (Traversy Media)
- Everything else: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC3y8-rFHvwhBRAgFinJR8KHIrCdTkZcZ
- Official docs: https://angular.io/docs; really helped me understand the lifecycle hooks and 2 way data binding.
Ionic 4:
I worked on Ionic 4 towards the end and since I was already so familiar with Angular 8 by then,
- the Official Ionic documentation served my purpose entirely (and stackoverflow.com, but that goes without saying).
- for Firebase with angular we used: https://github.com/angular/angularfire (has well-written documentation)
End Note
I hope this was helpful for anyone who’s looking for their big break into the tech industry.
Otherwise, if you are a recruiter or an engineer who’d like to refer me at their company, I am also a bug hunter and CTF player and now looking for a cyber security internship for summer 2021.
You can find my portfolio/resume here: https://eshaan7.github.io/
Thanks for reading, keep hackin’! ~ Eshaan7
