I wrote my first lines of commercial code as an intern at a little company called DataStax in Austin, Texas. I was just coming off my freshman year at UT. I had no idea what I was doing but the people there were fantastic and helped me learn a ton (shout out to Tyler Hobbs). It really kicked off my career. This was like 3 years ago.
I was specifically writing some python code for OpsCenter, their Cassandra management tool. It was pretty cool since it was essentially my first exposure to python, and really my first exposure to working in the industry. My code went out with their 2.1 release and knowing that someone somewhere was running a part of what I wrote was pretty cool.
That "little" company got really really big now! They just recently raised $106mm and are doing really well. I'm quite happy for them and glad they gave me the opportunity so early on.
I was specifically writing some python code for OpsCenter, their Cassandra management tool. It was pretty cool since it was essentially my first exposure to python, and really my first exposure to working in the industry. My code went out with their 2.1 release and knowing that someone somewhere was running a part of what I wrote was pretty cool.
That "little" company got really really big now! They just recently raised $106mm and are doing really well. I'm quite happy for them and glad they gave me the opportunity so early on.