Life at Cisco

I know I blogged a little about what I did last summer, but I didn't elaborate. I was a Cisco Choice Intern working at Cisco HQ in San Jose. I worked in the STBU or Secure Technology Business Unit group underneath my awesome and very helpful boss Ajay Garg. My mentor who helped me a lot and was a great awesome person was Kanika Thapar. My team was very helpful during my time at Cisco.

It worked a little like this

During the internship, I worked on Cisco ASA, a enterprise firewall system fixing the infamous time_t bug. It was an intense, quick paced project as I had to crawl through a million lines of code and fix erros, plus add new functions to be able to handle this now larger data type. During one part of the internship, I had to teach myself atomic operations and threads. I added new functionality to atomic compare and exchange a 128 bit piece of data. I did this in a matter of 3 days. When I work on something, I give it 110%.