This internship broadened my horizons. I was tasked with rebranding and improving an already existing client project. Under the leadership of my senior developer, I had to setup and run meetings with the client by myself. This taught me the value of translating complex programming concepts from their abstract form to a more client-friendly language. It was this internship that made me understand the true value of Agile processes.

I worked on a language-mapping cross platform mobile application, which also had a Web Application accompanying it. I helped set up the API, database and host the Web Application. Further activities involved rebranding all previous logos and colours to my clients preferred designs.

I had to then:
Reconfigure the API routes of the mobile application to match the newly hosted API routes. Test the application on iOS and Android, whilst documenting and comparing all test results against a predefined test case. Being able to read C# was a must as fixing the failing tests required me to read and modify Xamarin code. Added more information to the Homepage of the Web Application by writing HTML code. In parallel to all this, I had to make sure I maintained a clean, well rebased linear git history for all the different repositories I had modified.

At Aston, I have been exposed to and immersed in new technologies such as: PHP | Laravel | Java | Frontend | Backend| Design Patterns and many more. Before starting university I had already self-taught myself and worked on several projects using Python | Django and common Frontend languages.

As a contracted part timer, my work at Apates has involved building APIs with Django, parsing data and web scrapping. I have used BeautifulSoup to for webscrapping, accompanied by my custom written python scripts that helped clean the scrapped data.