Pragati Verma

The MLH Open Source Fellowship is a 12-week internship alternative for students interested in becoming software engineers. Instead of an internship at a single company, we contributed to the type of Open Source projects that every company depends on.
I will be working with a pod of 8-10 students, a professional mentor, and 2-3 Open Source project maintainers. I will be involved in pair programming, work through open issues, write up documentation together with other pod members, participate in hackathons, show and tell presentations, and play CTFs.

https://itispragativerma.medium.com/my-journey-at-the-mlh-fellowship-a1145e260c09

The MLH Open Source Fellowship is a 12-week internship alternative for students interested in becoming software engineers. Instead of an internship at a single company, we contributed to the type of Open Source projects that every company depends on.
I worked with a pod of 8-10 students - Pod 1.0.0(Fantastic Falcons), a professional mentor, and 2-3 Open Source project maintainers. I did pair programming, worked through open issues, wrote up documentation together with other pod members, participated in hackathons, show and tell presentations, and played CTF. I contributed to React Native Tutorial App under Facebook Open Source maintainers - Ricky Hanlon and Keion.

https://fellowship.mlh.io/

DSC train thousands of student developers globally and work with their communities to solve real-life problems. My responsibilities as a community leader at DSC JSS are as follows:

● Evaluate member's skills and knowledge regularly, providing hands-on training and mentoring to individuals with lagging skills.
● Deliver superior training and leadership to the team to boost performance and help team members achieve performance targets.
● Design a strategic plan for component development practices to support future projects.
Instructed junior team members on protocols and procedures of each station to maximize contributions.
● Engage in professional networking to maintain strong relationships with communications and media professionals to drive partnerships and effective dissemination of mass communications.
● Foster collaborative efforts to schedule, host and facilitate events and identify further opportunities to reach members of the community.
● Support senior leadership by developing status reports on activities related to planning, scheduling, cancellation, inquiries, resourcing, risk mitigation, and proposal development for various events.

https://dscjss.in/

I was a Frontend Developer Intern at Inscripts and was responsible for improvising the CometChat Dashboard SDK and minor fixes for the saynamaste app. My responsibilities at Inscripts also included:

● Outlining high-volume, high-scale web front ends for assets requiring responsive designs.
● Maintaining existing applications and designed and delivered new applications.
● Collaborating with developers and performance engineers to enhance supportability and identify performance bottlenecks.
● Contributing ideas and suggestions in team meetings and delivering updates on deadlines, designs, and enhancements.

https://www.inscripts.com/

I am a writer at The Startup, Level Up Coding, and JS in Plain English Publications at Medium. I am passionate about writing on topics related to web development, entrepreneurship, and open source. https://medium.com/@itispragativerma