I realized that I’ve never written about what I’ve done over my summers.

2013

This was the summer after my senior year of high school. Because I was taking all of my classes at WPI, I got to know some awesome professors, and thanks to one of them, I ended up getting an internship at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. I worked in the Cyber and Information Security Research Group on the Situation and Threat Understanding by Correlating Contextual Observations (STUCCO) project. In the beginning of the summer, I did some random things, and then I figured out a project to work on for the rest of the summer. I built Morph, a Scala library that helps parse and transform structured data, which was something we needed for STUCCO.

This was a great summer working on a fun project with brilliant researchers. As a bonus, all the software I wrote was open sourced! Spending the summer in Oak Ridge, Tennessee was quite an experience too. Many weekends were spent hiking in the Smoky Mountains. It was one of my best summer experiences ever.

2014

Summer after my freshman year of college, I spent three months working as a SWE intern on the Android team at Google in Mountain View. I worked on the frameworks, spending my time improving text layout for international languages, a change that was shipped with Android Lollipop. I also worked on some other stuff that will be released in the next version of Android. Fun fact about my mentor: he is the guy who designed the Inconsolata font, among other things.

This was my first summer in the Bay Area. Working for a tech giant was an interesting experience. Plus, I somehow ended up working on open source software again, which was awesome.

2015

This year, I’m working on the product security team at Dropbox. So far, it’s been a great experience, and I’ve been able to learn a lot about security from my mentor. I’m working on adding support for the latest web security standards like Subresource Integrity and a couple other things that I’m not sure if I can talk about yet.

Dropbox as a company is pretty awesome to work at, and they spoil us with things like the Tuck Shop. In addition, living in San Francisco is a lot of fun.