MiddCORE (Entrepreneur and Experiential-Learning Leadership Program)

Rato Bangala School

Middlebury College

Software Engineer at Toast, Inc.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Toast, Inc.

Software Engineer

- Hold office hours and assists peers with general job/internship applications and provide feedback for Resumes and Cover Letters

Middlebury College Center for Careers and Internships

Peer Career Adviser

- Built and wrote tests for a Lightning Component, using Aura, CSS and Javascript frontend and a Java backend, that summarizes the Marketing Development Funds feature for Salesforce’s upcoming Sales Cloud PRM Winter 2017 release, which will be featured in Dreamforce 2017
- Participated in daily Stand ups, fixed bugs, wrote user stories, made test plans, and learned a plethora of Agile skills
- Completed half a dozen of Salesforce’s technical Trailhead courses including ones on writing WebDriver tests, effectively using Salesforce’s CSS design framework, and writing code to improve Salesforce’s Accessibility features

Salesforce

Software Engineer Intern

- Selected to take the responsibility of managing and updating MiddCourses, the course review website for students
- Gathered opinions from the student body about Middlebury’s technological services and present them to the administration

Middlebury College Student Government Association

Director of Technology

- Advanced Algorithms Research: Worked as a research assistant for Prof. Ananya Christman to derive a 2-competitive algorithm for the Online Dial-a-Ride problem with weighted edges and proved its competency

Middlebury College Computer Science Department

Research Assistant

- Elected to brainstorm, prototype, and invent an interdisciplinary scientific product over Winter and Summer 2016 with a group of seven students and three faculty members
- Designed the RIVIR, a rover that enters crawl spaces and inspects steam pipes for leaks, a product that is currently being utilized by the Middlebury Facilities Team
- Developed a software in Python (PyQt) that communicates with a Raspberry-pi to navigate the RIVIR and gather thermal and visual data, which is then displayed on a computer screen to help the user identify steam leaks and increase energy efficiency

STEM Innovation Project

Software Engineering Researcher

- Represented Middlebury College’s Computer Science students (majors and minors) during the new faculty hiring process.
- Attended presentations and mock lectures by potential CS candidates, conducted interviews, and gathered opinion from other CS students about potential candidates.

Computer Science Recruitment Committee

Student Representative

- Manage office responsibilities, field phone calls, and schedule student appointments with career counselors and advisors.

Office Assistant

- Made audio books to help kids in rural areas of Nepal learn English.

Aayam Poudel