GSoC came to an end. Kinda sad :(

As mentioned in the previous blogs, I was working on the translator repository from Sreenik during this last phase. We hopped on a couple of calls and discussed some design ideas before I went ahead and implemented a ton of changes. Go have a look at my fork and compare it with the original repo to understand the magnitude of transformation that this repo went through during the last 3 weeks of GSoC. There are still a couple of bugs in some of the functionalities, which Sreenik mentioned that he is working on currently. But from my end, the work that I had proposed for the translator for GSoC is complete. The translator is almost at a useable state right now, except that some of the functions crash sometimes due to a bug yet unknown.

This part wasn’t really super exciting, because the work was pretty easy to figure out and do, and also because I was constantly feeling the end of the GSoC period coming closer every day. But, in the end I was very happy with the way the repo turned out.

I submitted my work product on the final day after making some fine adjustments to the Translator, and waited for a week or so, before I got to know that I passed the final evaluations. LinkedIn got flooded with people posting messages of them passing GSoC evaluations😂, and I got flooded with a flurry of emotions as I had enjoyed the whole program overall a lot! I would like to keep contributing to open source, as I feel I was able to learn a lot of new things on my own a lot faster while going through this program. Thank you, everyone at mlpack, for giving me this opportunity to work over the summer as a GSoC participant, I will be forever grateful for this experience!

See you next week?
XOXO

EDIT :

After week 13, on-campus interviews started in my university and I appeared for a couple of them. I was offered a entry level software developer role at Wells Fargo. I wrote about this experience in the next blog.