Software Engineering is not only a versatile but also a prolific vocation. What I love most about it is its parity between the theoretical and empirical. Initially, I had embarked upon my academic journey with Biology only to pivot to CS in my Junior year. The solution to the coin change problem enthralled me, that I yearned for more, so I explored advanced classes in algorithms and number theory. Although I was a little late to the game, my hard work and tenacity helped me complete my CS requirements within five semesters, all while working three jobs. My efforts laid hold with me receiving the XYZ scholarship during undergrad and the XYZ Scholarship to attend University of JJJ’s Master’s program in Computer Science.
Formerly, I concluded that getting industry experience was of utmost importance to me to recognize my interests, which led me to pursue an opportunity with XYZ. I worked as a back-end engineer on their ads team, gaining hands-on experience scaling and maintaining their large-scale real-time systems. I managed their data pipeline, processing terabytes of data, scaling, improving, testing, handling an increase in traffic, maintenance windows, metrics requests. I quickly picked up what was needed and delivered, which earned me a promotion within the first year at the company. In addition, for the past two years, I have been running an apprenticeship called “XYZ,” where I work with people incipient on their tech journey to build software. Mentoring, leading, building alongside the team. I can proudly say that the program has reaped positive…
