Meet the Interns — Summer 2021

From both coasts and seven different universities, these students have been working alongside our Engineering, Design, Product, Finance, & Marketing teams for five weeks already!

Xpanse is excited to have them on as an intern team brings diverse experience, fresh perspectives, and new learnings to the whole company.

As a company that values continuous learning, we want to develop a meaningful internship program to help foster the next generation of tech talent. Internships are great exercises in learning and development for the students, hiring managers, and the broader company. We are excited to kick off our 2nd Xpanse Summer Internship Program with such an exceptional group

Greg Middleman COO & Founder

Take a moment to meet this exceptional group!

— read on for highlights and what they are most looking forward to during the rest of their summers with Xpanse.

Aishwarya Supekar

Aish is a Seattle University master’s student currently working in Engineering at Xpanse. She is currently pursuing her MS in Computer Science. Her favorite project so far has been designing and implementing the backend and the frontend for workflow configuration service for the B2B portal:

“The best thing about this project is that I have an opportunity to work from ground zero with high visibility with the leadership team.”

She’s most excited about creating a positive impact and reducing several hours spent refactoring B2B configuration for her stakeholders.

Brandon Weinstock

Brandon is a University of Indiana Bloomington student working on the Business Operations Team at Xpanse. Brandon is a rising junior studying TV, Film and Production at Indiana University. His favorite project so far has been working on the Xpanse branding and Medium blog posts. He hopes to gain more insight into the mortgage industry and learn more about marketing and design.

Charles Burr

Charlie is a Seattle University student working with Marketing on the Business Operations Team. He’s currently working on two bachelor’s degrees in Digital Design and Business Marketing. His favorite project so far has been using his design skills to re-work the company pitch deck and other branding materials. He’s most looking forward to building his design portfolio, leveraging his marketing knowledge, as well as building new connections at the company throughout the summer.

Christina Van Essen

Kiki is an Arizona State University student working as a UX research intern on the Design Team. She’s currently working towards a Ph.D. in Communication Studies. Her favorite project so far has been attending loan advisor user research calls at Freedom.

She enjoys identifying the pitfalls in the current system and thinking about ways in which Xpanse can create a platform to make the flow of the system more natural. She hopes to learn more about the jobs of different stakeholders in the mortgage industry and what support they need to improve their work.

David Peng

David is a University of Washington student working on the Finance Team at Xpanse. He’s currently going into his junior year pursuing a major in economics.

His favorite project so far has been market and company research on potential acquisition targets:

“It gives me a great understanding of the various key players in the mortgage tech space.”

He’s most looking forward to sharpening his financial valuation skills and better understanding the mortgage industry.

Gambhir Kunwar

Gambhir is a Northeastern University student working on the Engineering Team at Xpanse. He is in his second year of his Master’s in Computer Science. So far he’s enjoyed creating the design proportion of his intern project and presenting that to his team.

He’s currently working on implementing REST APIs for onboarding new customers to use our products and looking forward to learning the various tools that the engineering team uses to build a full-service product.

Ketan Mandeva

Ketan is a University of Pennsylvania student working on the Finance Team at Xpanse. Currently, he’s going into the final year of his Engineering Degree. His favorite project so far has been market research and analysis of potential acquisition targets. He’s hoping to learn more about the mortgage tech industry and is excited to have the opportunity to learn how to apply his engineering and decision science background to fintech.

Solji Lee

Solji is a student at the University of Washington working on the Design Team Xpanse. She’s currently finishing up her MDes Masters of Design this summer. Her favorite project so far has been working on the workflow configuration for the B2B portal.

She’s excited to work on this project because the primary stakeholders will be employees at Xpanse. Solji hopes that this internship will be a space to improve her soft skills.

Xpanse is building the modern OS for the greater mortgage industry that will connect and create value to borrowers, lenders, servicers, and providers. Conquering the last frontier of Fintech #BuiltInSeattle

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