Parmita's Blog

As a Technovation Alumn , I was invited to attend the Google Science Fair this year! It was so amazing and inspiring to see the world-shaping inventions these young people are creating. Dianna Cowern aka Physics Girl was MCing the awards ceremony And I was soooo excited because she has had such a huge impact on my life! She was one of the first YouTubers I ever subscribed to and introduced me to the amazing world of educational YouTube videos (it's not just for cat videos, you say!?!?)  Getting to meet her, talk about some of my interests, and thank her for her impact on my life was definitely a highlight! :D

This summer I got the incredible experience of interning at Splunk!!! There are so many different things I could write about from my experience, but lemme just big a couple main ones: 1) Big vs Small (or more accurately mid-sized company vs startup, but that doesn't have the same ring to it) 2) CI/CD + CL! (Continuous Integration and Development   +   Continuous Learning!) Part 1: Big Company vs Small Company  My last internship was at a startup ( see more about it here ), and the onboarding process was many miles away from the way it was at Splunk. To introduce myself at the startup, I could literally just say “Hi!” loud enough and everyone in the 1-floor office would hear me. But Splunk has close to 5 thousand employees across the world! Understandably this leads to quite a different experience. Everyday, I have the opportunity to meet someone new. I have the chance to meet people with so many different interests. Almost like a college, there...

I have been obsessed with Hamilton for a while now.  My friends know it: I’ve drawn my favorite characters and made too many comics about them to count.  I’ve listened to the 2 hours and 23 minute soundtrack so many times... ...that my music suggestions are definitely skewed: (all these singers are from the Original Broadway Cast Album recording of Hamilton) and I can sing pretty much every part (or at least attempt to--I never said I was a good singer)  And that screenshot is from the official Hamiton app, which I have been religiously checking every single day since I came back to San Francisco for the summer. Why? Hamilton is playing in SF, and I figured, why not apply for the ticket lottery? Basically, I’d apply for the next day’s lottery at 11 am every day and  every day at around 9 am I would see It just became a habit. I didn’t even think about it. I could locate the “Try Again” notification and reapply...

I was sponsored to attend VentureBeat’s Transform AI Conference! It was my very first time going to a conference like that and I learned a lot! I’m also super grateful to my manager, Medha, who not only gave me the time to go attend, but also encouraged me to go and share what I learned with the team. Here’s the presentation I made for my team recapping what happened (link) And few screenshots (cause we all know no one is gonna be bothered to click that link :P )