Engineering MAY 2023 → JUL 2023

Software Engineering Intern

RESTful services in Python over PostgreSQL, and a deployment path that stopped being manual.

Classification

Engineering

Client

4C Consulting — Technology Division

Window

MAY 2023 → JUL 2023

Duration

2 MO

Location

On-site

The brief

The brief

Consultancy work: short cycles, real clients, and a deployment process that had grown by accretion rather than design.

I wrote the server-side data handling in Python against PostgreSQL and built the interfaces on top, but the change that outlasted me was moving releases onto Jenkins.

Scope of work

Scope of work

Employed RESTful APIs for server-side data handling and storage in Python and PostgreSQL, focused on system efficiency.
Designed responsive web interfaces with HTML, CSS and JavaScript; improved deployment using Jenkins, Agile, Git, Jira, Postman and GraphQL.

Measured

Measured

REST+ GraphQL surface

CImanual → Jenkins

Plan

Plan

4 items · scale 1:1

Note · A conventional shape, done properly — the win was automating the right-hand column.

What I'd redraw

What I'd redraw

GraphQL was added because it was on the list, not because the client shape demanded it. Two endpoints would have been simpler and faster. I'm now much slower to add a query layer than I was.

Materials

Materials

PythonPostgreSQLRESTGraphQLJenkinsGitJiraPostman