I joined Kayrros during my master studies for my final internship. Our team empowers project teams to focus on their algorithms without worrying too much about their data needs. The core competence of the team is to provide a company internal catalog which is a unified view of both public and commercial satellite data.

During the internship, the task was to improve on both the downloading stack of satellite data and the catalog itself. For example, one of the tasks was to add a new satellite source.

A lot happened since then, the catalog got a rewrite with a new tech stack and a better architecture, the company migrated to Kubernetes from Rancher and went back to AWS after staying some years self-hosted. We added new services, and we were able to significantly reduce our storage costs. I had the chance to lead the development of projects and am involved in all the planning for upcoming ones. I enjoy learning new things along the way and keep getting challenged.

During my first year of masters, I was working as a freelance developer in the Netherlands. The project I was working on I acquired through a former student colleague. It was an Angular 2 application for a tax consultant company, and I worked on it with two other freelancers. My main duty was to make the application mobile ready as a Cordova app.

My internship which was part of my bachelor studies was at Bosch in the Chassis Systems Control division near Stuttgart, Germany. The team was working on multiple connected car services which used a microservice architecture. Most of the services were written in Javascript (node) except the Machine learning ones. My biggest project during the internship was a microservice which was responsible for triggering scheduled task of the other services. It used Redis as a store for the events. I learned a lot about testing, navigating the source code of different services and what it takes to make a project production ready. Furhermore what it is to work in a multinational company.