Nahian Choudhury

College: Queens College

Education Level: Senior

Career Interest: Software Engineer

My name is Nahian Choudhury. I am a 4th year CS undergraduate. My goal is to break into tech and pursue my dreams as a software engineer. Outside of school and work, I have many interests. I love 90's Japanese cars, and one of my dreams is to have a collection of them in the future. I also love anime, and watching anime is one of my favorite pass times. Astronomy and marine biology are among my other interests, and I sometimes play with the idea of a career pursuit change, as animals, nature, and space are all major interests of mine. Who knows what the future hold for me.

What was your role?

Chores/fundraising implementation.

What did you work on?

What was the impact of your project?

The goal of the chores team is to help tackle the debt crisis in our country but teaching out youth financial literacy, so they make the proper monetary decisions to avoid crippling debt.

What did you learn or improve on from this internship or from your teammates?

Every one of my teammates is good at a specific focus, so Ive had the pleasure of learning all sorts of small things from them.

What skills have you gained?

Agile/scrum/sprint. PHP. Javascript. GCP

What was the biggest roadblock you've overcome?

The work from home environment has made it a little difficult to get help when needed, but Ive gotten used to the MS Teams culture.

How has company culture guided your work?

Unadat is very learn-first oriented, which has allowed me to grow and move forward at a steady pace without feeling to pressured.

What was your experience at Unadat?

Really big learning experience, as I was exposed to much of the professional workflow.

What was one big project you worked on during the internship? Can you walk me through the process?

My teams (chores) was assigned to build out the chores functionality. This was a new feature that we were assigned, so there was a lot of confusion as to what was required, and what we really had to do. The first couple days consisted of coming up with sketches and designs, as well as necessary functions. Following multiple meetings, and design polishing, we began to study the code-base and figure where and how to make changes. This took a lot of time, but thereafter we were able to start building out our designs week after week, until we had an almost fully polished functional feature.