Dickinson College
Computer Science Major Jobs and Graduate School Acceptances 2022
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Zack Hollander
Hometown: Arlington, Virginia
Major: computer science
Employer: KPMG
Job title: cyber security associate
Job title: cyber security associate
Job Responsibillities
Help companies such as Universal Music Studios, Goldman Sachs and other Fortune 500 companies maintain good cyber practices.
How has Dickinson prepared you for life after graduation?
It helped me make friends who are all in the same area. Good social network.
Internship Experience
- Troy Web consulting: Designed and built web-based applications.
- Solutions by Design: Managed IT systems for local companies in Albany, N.Y.
Anthony Vo
Hometown: Bellevue, Washington
Major: computer science
Employer: Google
Job title: software engineer II
Job Responsibilities
Develop and maintain the infrastructure for Google Cloud and Google Workspace (Drive, Meet, Gmail, Docs, Voice, etc.)
How has Dickinson prepared you for life after graduation?
Dickinson equipped me with a strong academic foundation across the board and the ability to problem-solve involving multiple perspectives. It also offered me invaluable connections with professors, peers and staff members who helped me grow as a person.
What are you most anticipating about your career or post-graduate pursuits?
I look forward to tackling the challenges of maintaining and developing critical software infrastructure that serves billions of customers worldwide at Google.
What are some of the defining moments of your Dickinson experience?
The global pandemic. I truly appreciate how Dickinson ensured the safety and wellbeing of everyone, particularly international students who were not able to return home due to travel restrictions. I was provided free food and housing while stuck on campus between March and July 2020, for which I will always be grateful.
Internship Experience
I interned at SAP in the summer of 2021 as a cloud software developer for Concur, a popular expense-management app among businesses. Before that, I was an Android developer intern at Open Learning Exchange, a social benefit organization focused on improving education quality among developing nations.
Lan Pham
Hometown: Hanoi, Vietnam
Majors: computer science, mathematics
Employer: Microsoft
Job title: product manager
Job title: product manager
Job Responsbilities
- Work on the initial feature planning and design, manage the specifications of their development and monitor their ongoing operation to better understand customer experiences.
- Work collaboratively with teammates to ensure our products exceed customer expectations.
- Communicate throughout the process to understand progress toward delivery, technical challenges and to provide clarity on customer needs using a data-driven approach.
How has Dickinson prepared you for life after graduation?
With the liberal arts education, even though I was preparing for the skills to become a software engineer, I also learned the soft skills that landed me the product manager role.
What are you most anticipating about your career or post-graduate pursuits?
I get to write new features for the products of one of the biggest software companies in the world.
What are some of the defining moments of your Dickinson experience?
Becoming a student representative for the data analytics proposal, and now it has become a major at Dickinson. I got to interview incoming professors and got involved in the process of proposing the major to become a reality.
Internship Experience
- FinOS, Product Manager intern, Hanoi, Vietnam.
- FPT Software, Product Manager intern, Hanoi, Vietnam
Leonid Sorkin
Hometown: Benissa, Spain
Major: computer science
Employer: Microsoft
Job title: software engineer
Job title: software engineer
How has Dickinson prepared you for life after graduation?
I got the skills I needed to get internships, which then helped me to get employed.
What are you most anticipating about your career or post-graduate pursuits?
I'm excited to start working at Microsoft. I am excited to work on something that nobody has ever worked on before.
What are some of the defining moments of your Dickinson experience?
All the time I spent with my friends. I don't think I'd be as happy as I am without them.
Internship Experience
Interned at Ladder and NCR corporation.
Raphael Lee
Hometown: Goyang City, Republic of Korea
Major: computer science
Employer: Box
Job title: software engineer
Job Responsibilties
Working for the Storage-Infrasture team. Will most likely work in with Scala (language) and integration with Google Cloud/Azure/AWS.
How has Dickinson prepared you for life after graduation?
Dickinson has a great alumni connection. Talking to different alumni provided me great idea what to expect, how to pivot career, advices about grad school and other life tips in general.
What are you most anticipating about your career or post-graduate pursuits?
Money. Highly recommend SWE (software engineering) as a career to those who are not too passionate in anything, do not hate code and wants to make good money straight out of college.
What are some of the defining moments of your Dickinson experience?
I am currently doing research with Assistant Professor of Computer Science Farhan Siddiqui in 6G networks since last fall. This is a defining moment because I am getting hands-on experience in an unchartered territory directly with a professor.
Internship Experience
I interned for Blockchain Center (sophomore year) and Box (junior year), both as a SWE intern (software engineer intern). It was insightful to learn about how code and programs are used in real-life outside of classrooms.
Shannon Loughin
Hometown: Royersford, Pennsylvania
Major: computer science
Employer: Freddie Mac
Job title: IT analyst
Job Responsibilities
I will be working as a software engineer on various projects within the company. I will have to help design, modify and test code to either contribute to new features or enhance existing functions.
How has Dickinson prepared you for life after graduation?
Dickinson has prepared me for life after graduation by teaching me to consider a situation from multiple perspectives. My education has emphasized the importance of ethics and the humanities, even in a very technically focused career.
What are you most anticipating about your career or post-graduate pursuits?
I am excited to learn through hands-on experience in the corporate world and see the technology that the companies use every day.
What are some of the defining moments of your Dickinson experience?
Looking back on my time at Dickinson, I feel very lucky to have made lifelong friends from sports and academics.
Internship Experience
I interned with Freddie Mac (McLean, Va.) as a software engineering intern. I worked to enhance their machine learning process and learned a lot throught the experience. I also worked with AWS.
Khanh Hoang
Hometown: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Major: computer science
Employer: Amazon
Job title: software development engineer
Job Responsibilities
- Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to conceive, design and bring innovative products and services to market.
- Design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry.
- Create solutions to run predictions on distributed systems with exposure to innovative technologies at incredible scale and speed.
- Build distributed storage, index and query systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, low cost and easy to manage/use.
- Design and code the right solutions starting with broadly defined problems.
- Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software.
How has Dickinson prepared you for life after graduation?
Through discussions in the senior seminars, Dickinson prepared me to be a responsible developer and user in this 4.0 era. I became aware of social aspects of technology and how they can impact society. I had a chance to explore different problems in the tech field, such as ethics, blockchain technology and responsible AI. In general, I believe I can learn technical skills by myself, but all these insights can just be learned through the process of reading, discussing and self-reflecting in every of my seminar class.
What are you most anticipating about your career or post-graduate pursuits?
I only hope I can find a team that I feel comfortable to work with. I know different companies, different teams have their values and missions. Then, I wish I am good enough, or maybe lucky enough, to finally find one.
What are some of the defining moments of your Dickinson experience?
To be fair, I always consider myself a freshman at Dickinson. Since I am a transfer student, I only have had two years at Dickinson. Unfortunately, my junior year was online. However, I was lucky enough to have a community where all my CS friends were willing to share their experience, knowledge. I finally had a job offer thanks to their support.
Internship Experience
RRD at Thurmont, Md. I was hopeless to find an internship for my summer 2021 and found this opportunity during the pandemic. Even though the role was Perl/Python developer, I learned a lot since my mentor put me in different stages of production. I had a chance to speak with senior developers who had different career paths. They inspired me a lot. What I learned was that as long as you had good soft skills and solid foundation, you can flexibly move around in the industry. At some point, we can find the job/team that we are comfortable with.
Son Nguyen
Hometown: Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
Major: computer science
Employer: H&N Group, Inc.
Job title: business system analyst
Job Responsibilties
A a business systems analyst (BSA), I will work closely with key management team members to assess and document current processes and provide suggestions for how H&N can better meet and/or improve business needs utilizing IT and software solutions. I'll stay up-to-date on latest applications of IT/software and assist in implementing new IT operations from initial idea to project completion. And I will also assist in maintaining company website.
How has Dickinson prepared you for life after graduation?
Dickinson has created a welcoming environment for me to develop as an independent human being, capable of taking care of myself as well as giving back to the community that helped me. I think these factors alone are already enough when it comes to preparing someone for life after graduation.
What are you most anticipating about your career or post-graduate pursuits?
Making money.
Internship Experience
Intern business analyst/ RPA developer for AkaBot (a sub-company of FPT in Vietnam): Automated repetitive tasks to further streamline business procedure as well as communicated with client and dev to gain a full insight of how to head the project on the right track.
Katya Egorova
Hometown: Moscow, Russian Federation
Major: computer science
Employer: Slack
Job title: associate software engineer
Job Responsibilities
I will be working as a front-end software engineer for the Slack (messaging app for businesses) web app. I will be on the team that works with main Slack components, such as messages, threads, text box, etc.
How has Dickinson prepared you for life after graduation?
Dickinson gave me an opportunity to try myself in different areas of study and ultimately major in something I have never studied before college. Throughout my time at Dickinson, I have learned how to be more courageous and persistent, put myself outside of my comfort zone and try to do things that I am not good at. I have also developed supportive and meaningful connections with my peers and professors that helped me grow as a person and learn about computer science and other fields of study.
What are you most anticipating about your career or post-graduate pursuits?
I am excited to start working in the industry and contributing to the product that is used by millions of people daily. I also hope that my skills and knowledge will improve significantly as I will be able to focus on my programming skills full-time.
What are some of the defining moments of your Dickinson experience?
Choosing to major in computer science despite getting the worst grades in the related courses was the most defining moment of my Dickinson experience. Computer science was a challenging major, and I probably would have an easier time doing anything else, but it is a decision I do not regret. It also led me to co-found the Girls Who Code Club on campus to help and support other girls who are studying or interested in computer science.
Internship Experience
After my junior year, I worked as a software engineer intern at HERE technologies. I was working on the team that developed maps for autonomous cars. My work was mostly focused on sorting and analyzing HTTP errors, writing code for geospatial calculations and collaborating with senior engineers on the main algorithm for grouping lanes together.
Larry Hu
Hometown: Kun Shan, China
Major: computer science
Graduate School: Columbia University
Field of study: computer science
Weiran Wang
Hometown: Beijing, China
Major: computer science
Graduate School: Columbia University
Field of study: computer science
Sweta Tamrakar
Hometown: Kathmandu, Nepal
Majors: computer science, mathematics
Employer: Amazon
Job title: software development engineer
Job Responsbilities
- Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to conceive, design and bring innovative products and services to market.
- Design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry.
- Create solutions to run predictions on distributed systems with exposure to innovative technologies at incredible scale and speed.
- Build distributed storage, index and query systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, low cost and easy to manage/use.
- Design and code the right solutions starting with broadly defined problems.
- Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software.
How has Dickinson prepared you for life after graduation?
Dickinson has prepared me in a myriad of ways. They have helped me discover my passion, overcome my fear and anxiety, face challenges head-on and power through life.
What are you most anticipating about your career or post-graduate pursuits?
Working with a team that has a strong sense of community and are willing to help me and teach me new things. I also hope that our interests align because I want to work on projects that I am deeply passionate about.
What are some of the defining moments of your Dickinson experience?
Working as the technology assistant at the Trout Gallery, tutoring students during my QRA/help room sessions, being a part of CCLA and going on a service trip to South Carolina, leading the Student Alumni Association as the co-president of the organization and most importantly, building friendships that will last forever. I am grateful to all my friends who have helped me and supported me through my Dickinson journey.
Internship Experience
I interned as the technology assistant for the Trout Gallery, which is the art museum of Dickinson College. During the internship, I worked on the configuration and maintenance of the gallery management software. This includes application design, data and database management, issue detection and resolution and technical writing. However, designing the app was my favorite part of the internship, because it taught me a lot about system design and architecture. It also helped me understand the relationship between users, designers and developers of an application, which I thought was pretty cool. Overall, I am very appreciative of this experience because I got to interact with so many people at the Trout Gallery, and it introduced me to many new techniques and technologies.
Elly Do
Hometown: Hanoi, Vietnam
Majors: computer science, mathematics
Graduate School: North Carolina State University
Field of study: mathematics
What are you most anticipating about your career or post-graduate pursuits?
I am excited to continue my studies in mathematics and computer science. Despite the fact that my Ph.D. program is in mathematics, I will be able to utilize my computer science expertise, namely coding skills, in my research work. I expect the path ahead to be difficult, and it makes me nervous just thinking about it. However, it is this aspect of my graduate studies that intrigues me. I am convinced that what Dickinson has prepared me will be a tremendous asset in supporting me in reaching success in the coming years.
What are some of the defining moments of your Dickinson experience?
- Working on a collaborative mathematics research project with two advisors.
- Making good friends in my majors' department, computer science and mathematics. One of the finest memories I have is hanging out with them to attend departmental and college activities.
- Serving as a resident advisor for two years in a row.
- Serving on the computer science and mathematics department's majors' committee.
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Published May 16, 2022