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I joined Experian shortly after I graduated in July 2021 as an associate developer. I joined a team that specifically manages the SaaS infrastructure in my department which I am glad I did. Working with the team is so much fun and exciting, where we get to tackle challenging issues together as a team and learn new things along the way.

I am responsible for implementing features and fixing bugs in our microservice components that are implemented in C# and .NET. Asides, I am also responsible for handling any change request in our front-end portals written in Angular, React and Mvc.Net.

Along the way, I hosted numerous discussions, task breakdowns and groomings with the team. The most evident achievement I get is the promotion from associate developer to developer and I am grateful for that. I am thankful for the help and collaboration I received over the years from my awesome team who always got my back when I made a mistake.

I learned to be optimistic when approaching a problem. There is always a solution to the problem, and we are obliged to find it out instead of dismissing it right away. Another notable takeaway is to communicate well with the team regarding any decision made and be transparent about it. Sometimes other people may have a better solution that we might not think of. I also learned how to properly debug my code in Visual Studio and write effective unit tests using the BDD concept. I was able to wrap my head around the concept of microservices as well.

As a final year student, I had my internship at a small but impactful local software firm named Soft-Skills Sdn Bhd at around October 2020. My internship spans for only a short 13 weeks or 3 months and subsequently, I returned to the university to complete my final semester in early January the year after. I am thankful to be able to seize the opportunity to work in the company as the country was suffering from a terrible recession due to the pandemic lockdowns across the nation.

As a clueless kid venturing into the software industry for the first time, I am grateful that I was assigned to Jack, an amiable senior to be my mentor for my momentary employment here. During the first few weeks of my job, I was given the time to learn and understand the essence of UI/UX and design in general, with interactive exercises and good reads curated by my mentor in hopes to consolidate my understanding and be able to contribute to the project that I will be picking up soon. Besides that, I was gifted a book entitled "The Designs of Everyday Things" by Don Norman as well as an E-book named "Refactoring UI" by Adam Wathan and Steve Schoger, the creators of Tailwind CSS to supplement my learning.

I was in charge of designing and implementing a whole new web UI for a backend system and thus I have learned about creating wireframes with Figma, making API calls with Postman and implementing the interface with the company's Vue.js baseline. I was exposed to Trello for keeping track of my task and was asked to utilize it to jot down notes, gather useful resources and ask questions on the board. Before I left, I gave a presentation to the team that wraps up the things I've done for the past 13 weeks.

In hindsight, I realized that my attitude back then had left a lot to be desired as I tend to disregard things that seemed "impossible" to accomplish instead of making more research and finding alternatives. "No, this can't be done", and "I don't think this is possible" was some of my mantra back then and I am guilty of that. The thing is, I thought my attitude was satisfying and I did everything great back then but only dawned on me years later that I had such a dismal mentality. Maybe this is due to the "undergrads mindset" that I was plagued by.

All and all, I would like to express my gratitude towards Soft-Skills for offering a position that exposes me to what the real working environment is like in the software industry. I would also like to show my gratitude towards my mentor, Jack for having the patience of the saint for guiding an unbearably imprudent child over his internship.