From Student to Engineer: Inside My Rocket Ship Journey as a Yugabyte Intern
Discover Niyati Sinha’s journey from student to Yugabyte engineer in her own words.
Discover Niyati Sinha’s journey from student to Yugabyte engineer in her own words.
Hello! My name is Harshitha, and I’ve been interning at Yugabyte as a software developer since July 2021. The last four months have transformed me from a confused and cynical college student to a curious and optimistic technology enthusiast and developer. It has been a continuous and exponential metamorphosis driven by the people and carefully curated—although seemingly effortless—culture at Yugabyte. In this post, I’d like to talk about my experience working here and the positive influence this company has had on my future.
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Srinivas Pothuraju shares his story moving from two-time intern to a full-time software engineer. He also shares his perspective on Yugabyte’s three core principles—trust, relationships, and outcomes—and why they represent more than just words on paper.
Aliqyan Tapiai shares his experience as an intern at Yugabyte working on a project team for YugabyteDB Managed. He talks about the interview process, his project, and some fun things he got to do as well!
Basava Kolgani shares his experience as a summer intern at Yugabyte, including the application process and the projects he was able to work on. Interested in an internship at Yugabyte. Check out our open positions at www.yugabyte.com/careers/.
Hello everyone! It’s Lakshmi, from the sunny (and rainy!) shores of Singapore. I am now wrapping up my Yugabyte internship, and it feels bittersweet to be penning down my thoughts on this document prior to posting it. These four months have been eventful—from the sleepless countdown to DSS Asia 2022 to interacting with a warm team that pools their strengths together.
In this post— the final installment of the series—I want to outline three lessons I have learned from my time as a Yugabyte APJ intern.
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Hello. My name is Tim Elgersma, and I’m a software engineering intern on the YSQL team at Yugabyte. I have one semester left in my bachelor of Computer Science program at the University of Waterloo. In this blog post, I’d like to talk about my experience interning here over the past several months, and why I’m excited to join the company full time upon graduation.
My onboarding at Yugabyte went pretty smoothly.
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Editor’s note: Yugabyte is hiring!
My distributed SQL story begins late in 2019, back at my previous internship at a Norwegian startup called Cognite. While I was there, my team lead would always talk about how awesome distributed databases are, and also about his side project where he was building a small distributed SQL database from scratch in Rust (check it out here).
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It was late February, and I had spent the past several weeks learning everything I could about the distributed database ecosystem. As an intern on the Investment Team at 8VC, I had gotten the chance to work on technical due diligence under Partner & CTO Bhaskar Ghosh, taking a multitude of pitches every week and constantly shifting contexts. One of those companies speaking with us was Yugabyte,
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It was a warm day in early October, and two large white tents occupied the lawn that sits between the Gates, Hewlett, and Packard buildings. Companies pasted the word “AI” in big bold letters across their banners, and students formed long lines, resumes in-hand, eager to learn about the Next Big Thing and how often the company cafeteria serves Poké.
Six months prior I had made the decision to leave my comfortable job as a Software Engineer in the networking industry and pursue a Masters degree in Computer Science at Stanford,
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