Position: Developer
School: Case Western Reserve University, Class of 2016
What’s the most challenging part about working here?
There’s a big learning curve. I don’t have a developer who’s leading me, so I have to learn a lot on my own as I go. That’s challenging, but it also makes this experience very interesting.
Describe what you do every day here.
I’ve basically been acting as the lead developer for the company Anigraphic, so what I’ve been attending a lot of meetings. I take care of about all of the company’s software, and it is a software company so that’s a big part of it. I get to have input on the product, and I get to create the product from the ground up. I get to use my ideas and be creativity with what I do and how I do them.
How did you hear about this internship?
Flashstarts actually contacted me. I believe one of my professors reached out to Jen and Charles to recommend me, and they asked me to come in for an interview.
Why did you decide to take this internship with FlashStarts?
I knew this was a very big opportunity and I would get to do interesting work. Really, I wanted to see the whole startup world and learn about entrepreneurship because that interests me. It sounded like a great experience, especially as this was my first internship.
What’s your favorite part about working here?
I like how much freedom and responsibility I have working here. Freedom and responsibility seem to be contradictory, but at the same time I have both. I’m responsible for the whole project and have to deliver for it, but I have the freedom with how I get that done.
I also love the diversity of the workplace. I’m originally from France, and we have other interns and entrepreneurs from England, from China, from India. And it really is nice here, coming from France. While everyone says France is really cool, and it is, there’s also this rigidity there—this lack of change. But there’s so much innovation here. I get to do research here, I get to innovate, I get to have two majors here. There’s such an opportunity here, especially at FlashStarts.
What advice would you give an intern coming in to FlashStarts?
Communication is key. You have to know what everyone is doing in order to get work done efficiently. If you’re a developer, version control is very important. It comes into play a lot.
