I interned at MaruMe, a startup company based in Berkeley, CA, as an iOS app developer to build a product review app (kind of like Yelp for products). This was an extension of a grad school project of the founders. Unfortunately, this company no longer exists anymore, but this was my first real world experience and I learned a ton from them.

I spent the first month watching lectures of The Complete iOS 9 Developer Course by Rob Percival (The course does not exist in Udemy anymore because it's an old content; Swift 2). Back then, I didn't even know about web development or how database worked, so the learning curve was pretty steep, but I managed to learn enough to make some changes to the app.

Here are some highlights of what I implemented:

• Button Redesign: This was the first task I performed in my career as a Software Engineer -- a simple UI change 😉. Although it was supposed to be simple, it didn't feel simple at all to me back then. Previously the REVIEW button in the card was filled. The task was to change its style from filled to outlined.

  

• Profile: I created an user profile page where they can review what products they reviewed. They can also check their followers and followees in the page.

  

I still didn't know exactly what I was doing at the end of the internship, but I was glad that I at leasted exposed myself to the software industry. When you learn a new programming language, the first task you do is to print "Hello World!" to the console. This internship was the "Hello World!" of my software engineering career.