Ashwin Shenoy

I was selected for the 3 months Google Summer of Code 2019 program, with Salesforce Open Source, as student intern for a project that involved migration of the Lightening Design System Library of Salesforce to their React Component Library from HTML/CSS. The tasks also extensively involved ensuring a11y, unit-testing, and I worked under mentors from the Salesforce Engineering Team based out of San Francisco. I completed the program successfully, working in implementing 11 UI components into the project and was awarded a stipend of $3000 by Google.

Impressed with the hackathon project, I was offered a paid internship at GMetri XR, Bengaluru. I joined them for a one-month full-stack developer internship during my winter break. This is where I started learning React. I was involved in building the frontend for their track panel (analytics) for their VR studio platform.

I participated in my first hackathon - Hackference, in Bengaluru with other members in amFOSS (Akhil & Venu ettan). This was the first time I went to Bengaluru. We built GitLit, a tool to help match FOSS contributors with projects that interest them, and fit their skill-set.

I had been learning web development since 2016, but those were mostly no-code tools. When I joined amFOSS, I got into learning Python, Django & Javascript hands-on, especially by contributing to building the amFOSS CMS - which is an internal platform used to run the club.

amFOSS is a student-run open source & computer science club, and I was selected into it after a rigorous selection process. The club, started in 2007, is very popular and many people come to Amrita just to be a part of it.