My name is Emily Cahill, I graduated from Georgia Institute of Technology with a Computer Science degree in December 2015. During my time in school, I completed three internships as well as the College of Computing study abroad program in Barcelona, Spain.
Currently
After graduating, I moved to Austin, Texas to work full time as a Front End Engineer at Bazaarvoice. My team, known as the Display Team, is responsible for the front end of BV’s main product, Conversations (Ratings and Reviews), as well as additional, smaller third party apps that we are currently experimenting with. These applications are products that clients can implement along with Conversations to have better SEO, get more reviews from their customers, and help their customers make smarter purchasing decisions by seeing more specific review content. One of the applications that I helped develop is called Seller Ratings Display. It is a third party Javascript application that shows a retailer’s Google Seller Ratings on their home page.
Since I started working at Bazaarvoice, I have advanced my HTML, CSS, and Javascript skills, as well as gained experience in Node.js, React, and Redux. I have learned about how we help our clients increase their SEO and how to overcome the challenges of developing third party Javascript applications.
Past Work Experience
My first internship, during summer of 2012, was with Diaz Foods Wholesale in Atlanta, GA as an IT assistant. During this internship, my primary responsibilities were managing and installing software, maintaining hardware for desktop systems, and providing general assistance to the IT manager. My second internship was during the summer of 2013 with Phillips 66 in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, where I worked on the Web Application Services team. My project for the summer was to build a web application to store information on crude oil samples. This project gave me a better understanding of the application development process and web development concepts. I developed the project using the .NET Framework in Visual Studio with ASP.NET as the front-end development environment and C# as the code behind. The application used a SQL Server back-end database. My most recent internship was with Amazon.com in Seattle, WA where I was a part of the EC2 Spot Instances team of Amazon Web Services. My project was to design, develop, and test a new API that allowed users of the Spot Fleet service to change specific configuration values of Spot Fleet requests that they have placed. This API is now available, and allows Spot Fleet users to modify the target capacity of their Spot Fleet requests. The API is called ModifySpotFleetRequest and the documentation can be found here.
Mobile Development Skills
I also have experience with Android development, having made an Android app that tracks financial transactions. This app uses a SQLite database. As an awarded contestant in the 2013 ConocoPhillips Innovation Challenge, I developed a Google Glass application. The application was intended for use by a field technician, allowing them to locate pumpjacks in their area, select one, and see data and graphs associated with that pumpjack, all hands-free. My team placed third in the competition out of four teams.
Extracurricular Involvements
In addition to classwork, I was a member of a sorority, President of the Equestrian Team, and a mentor of the College of Computing. I assisted with a research project funded by the National Science Foundation and Expanding Computing Education Pathways (ECEP). The project, called Sisters Rise Up, aimed to increase the number of women in the Computer Science field. My responsibility was to organize and lead webinars and workshops for girls in local high school AP Computer Science classes to expose them to and provide an in-depth understanding of Object Oriented Programming concepts. I also created video tutorials of educational programming tools such as Scratch and [MIT App Inventor] (http://appinventor.mit.edu) to show children that creating games or mobile apps can be fun and creative. The videos can be found at the Georgia Tech Institute for Computing Education’s Distance Learning site.