As one of more than 400 interns from around the world, Cal Poly computer science student Rutu Samai didn’t expect her Microsoft Explore Internship in Software Engineering and Program Management last summer to include so much individual attention.
“I was surprised they treated you like a regular Microsoft employee,” said Samai, a junior from Pleasanton, Calif. “Executives would make themselves available to answer all of my questions. We could sit down in the Lunch and Learn program and talk with experts. I wasn’t expecting to be able to meet one-on-one with people in such a big company.”
Samai, who described the internship at the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Wash., campus as “four weeks of program management and eight weeks of development,” was a member of a four-student pod tasked with writing open-sourced software designed to simplify the company’s Azure Container Registries, part of the Microsoft Azure cloud service.
“It was definitely intimidating at first, but the casual approach and ability to get help made it a great learning experience,” said Samai, who will do a second Microsoft internship as a Program Manager this summer.
In the following video, Samai discusses her internship project on Microsoft’s Channel 9.
Samai details her project in the article “Azure Container Registries/Docker Extension Project,” from medium.com.
