Silicon valley here I am!

New job

I’ve just arrived in San Francisco, more precisely in Alameda. As part of my engineering studies, I need to complete a 9 month international internship to validate my degree.

Although I chose a general engineering school with a joint program with a business school, I’ve always been passionate about computer science and programming. I started coding my first website at 13 by borrowing an HTML book and using FrontPage, then Dreamweaver. So naturally, coming to Silicon Valley felt like the obvious choice.

When I arrived, I learned that what made the difference during the technical interview compared to older candidates was my knowledge of Ajax specifically the XMLHttpRequest keyword and my ability to build an Ajax API in PHP. Thanks to the website siteduzero.fr, which made it possible to learn programming on my own.

I am now working for Schneider Electric as a Junior Developer. I’ll be contributing to several projects, some in C++, .NET, XML/XSLT, and also building iGoogle and Netvibes widgets in JavaScript. Things evolve quickly, so there may be other topics as well, such as mobile applications…

Wish me luck on this new adventure!

Lifestyle

In addition to everything I’m learning technically, I’m also lucky to be discovering San Francisco and everything it has to offer. It’s a huge change of scenery.