About Me
My name is Shraddha Shaligram. I’m a graduate computer science student and learning is my No. 1 passion. I look forward to being a lifelong student of technology. I have always worked on my personal projects focussed on the web development domain or rather some traditional internships. This was my first experience working on open source. I must admit that, as a beginner, it’s a really daunting process.
Alright, that’s enough about me!
It takes a lot of effort to get an internship as an international student in the United States, with millions of students coming from all over the world to study here. Due to the COVID-19 situation, all my internship interviews were on hold or canceled. I came across the MLH Fellowship applications on a Facebook group, Women of Rewriting the Code, and I just thought of giving it a try. I am so glad to say that now I am a part of the inaugural class of MLH Fellows, where I contribute to open source projects written in TypeScript.
I probably must have sat through four to six hours of internship interview preparation daily, digging into Leetcode. But you never get a chance to talk about how what you do matters. I am finally getting to have some impact in the tech space, and having that impact can potentially ease peoples’ lives.
Why Open Source?
Open source is a great way to get real-world software development experience from the comfort of your home. The open-source community is very helpful and encourages new developers to take part in their organizations. You gain exposure, test your skills, gain knowledge, and bond with the community to produce quality code that helps people around the world. You write code that benefits the user community.
What Is the MLH Fellowship?
As GitHub’s welcome to the inaugural class of MLH Fellows said:
“Student developers are the future of software. Their taste in tools, their habits around code, what they are learning — all of these drivers will shape tech, and culture in general, for years to come. It was an internship alternative to many students who lost their internships due to COVID-10, sponsored by GitHub.
“Major League Hacking (MLH)_ teamed up with a coalition of companies — Facebook, Royal Bank of Canada, DEV, Ovio, PlutoVR, Amazon Web Services, Indeed, Twilio, NYC Tech Talent Pipeline, and Techtonica — to offer a new kind of industry experience: the__ MLH Fellowship_.
“This summer, 144 students from around the world are making contributions to diverse open source projects. It’s a remote opportunity but provides a global platform for students to showcase their skills.”
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