Since then, I’ve been hooked. Today I enjoy making more complicated and more useful software and also enjoy repairing/refurbishing old computers on the side to breathe new life into old hardware.

This past summer I worked at Société Générale as an intern for their application support team which acts as a midway between the trading platform programmers and the traders. Over the course of the summer I created a log scraping tool that continuously updates a dashboard on a critical business flow. This flow is a series of steps, including servers, that a particular DPS (Dynamic Portfolio Swap) trade must pass through and the bank did not have a solid way of monitoring it before the dashboard.

Next year I will be returning to Société Générale as a full time analyst joining the C++ team with plans to aid in the development and maintenance of their trading system. This is a particularly exciting role for me since I have always enjoyed studying economics and finance and this job provides me the intersection of finance and tech.