An Extraordinary Summer at Horizons

Summer 2017 ended with a blast! I spent an amazing summer at Horizons in San Francsico. It has been an honor and a privilege working with such an amazing group of talented people.

Horizons is a rapidly growing education startup that is changing the way technology is taught. It’s a coding bootcamp that teaches technologies such as JavaScript/Node.js, Express, MongoDB, React/Redux, etc.

Horizons Summer 2017. Photo credits: Horizons

Here are some highlights:

Horizons

designed coding experience for over 120 undergraduate students by creating and revising exercises for both full-stack web technologies (Node.js, Express, MongoDB, React, React Router, Redux, Webpack) and algorithms/data structures;
mentored students in the job prep path on data structures/algorithms;
added features and refactored some code for the tutoring Slack bot!
engineered a final project, a natural language based, interactive Slack bot for scheduling reminders and meetings on Google Calendar, to teach advanced asynchronous and state management concepts;
worked with a team of amazing junior and senior instructors;
horizons hackathon!

Places that I’ve visited

Airbnb HQ
Doleres Park (there’s a pretty good ice cream shop nearby!)
Fisherman Wharf
Japantown
Lands End (hiking!)
Stonestown
Twin Peaks
University of Berkeley (monsters university)

Food

Azalina’s on Market St. - Malaysian (Curry Chicken is highly recommended!)
~~Kokio Republic - Korean Fried Chicken (Closed)~~
Lers Ros - Thai (Chicken Satay)
Manora’s - Thai (Lemongrass Chicken Soup)
Nojo Ramen Tavern - Japanese (Chicken Paitan Soy Sauce Ramen)
Pak Nam - Thai (Chicken Noodle)
Penang Garden Restaurant - Malaysian (Hainanese Chicken Rice)
Rooster & Rice on 2nd St. - Thai

Random stuff that I could recall

attended an orchestra at SF Symphony;
SF Symphony - The Music of John Williams
cooked pasta;
Pasta
walked across the Golden Gate Bridge at night; (I could feel that the bridge was shaking…)
went for Internapalooza; (Not a good experience. It was really packed. But the talk by Drew Houston was really inspiring!);
received an invitation to Google Foobar after googling about Raft Consensus Algorithm;
Up for a challenge?
worked on some graph problems on UVa Online Judge; and
participated in AngelHack Silicon Valley and Jane Street’s ETC Challenge;
We built Parro!

Jane Street's ETC Challenge