Experience

• Built reactive Spring Boot REST services for a critical Apple planning tool.
• Achieved 100% test coverage, improving reliability of core backend modules.
• Worked in a cross-functional Agile team from design through implementation.
• Presented technical results to senior leadership.

I had a great internship developing backend code at Apple. I was able to step in and immediately contribute to a team while learning new frameworks and design strategies. It was a really unique experience because I joined the team during the design phase. Because of this, I developed a strong understanding of the preparation that must take place before the coding even begins. I was also introduced to Spring Boot and other helpful tools. Beyond the work itself, I had the opportunity to meet a lot of great people not only participate in, but help plan and facilitate some of the Early Careers events. My summer culminated in a presentation of my work with senior leadership. Going through that process ensured that I was able to effectively translate the importance of my technical solutions to a non-technical audience.

• Built a serverless application on AWS enabling factory staff to query production serialization data.
• Implemented backend services using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, Cognito, and CloudFormation.
• Improved internal data accessibility by enabling direct lookup of part history.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams and product owners to meet quality and delivery standards.

During my internship at Whelen Engineering, I developed a cloud-based application that allowed factory staff to interact directly with a Production Serialization Database. This was my first industry experience, and it could be divided neatly into two parts, the frontend and the backend development. The frontend process came first. I was able to build a modern frontend using Vite along with libraries such as TanStack Query and TanStack Table. The more important achievement in this time was that I learned to effectively utilize my resources in a corporate setting. Despite being the only one initially assigned to this project, I was able to loop in teammates and incorporate their ideas. Additionally, this phase culminated with a stakeholder review, in which I learned to run such a meeting and gained valuable feedback for the system. The second half of the summer allowed me to utilize all of these relationships I had built to flesh out the backend on AWS. By having stakeholders meetings and reviewing with teammates frequently, I was able to create a working system in an environment that I had never used before ahead of schedule and with exceptional quality.