At the beginning of 2020, I was an introverted student who attends university classes in the morning and is up all night in the hostel room and keeps exploring various domains of technologies.

From the very beginning of my University, I found college classes to simple and kind of boring. After wasting an entire day at university, when I am back to the hostel, It’s time to do something productive. I keep looking at things which are interesting. I tried many things include Scripting, web development, ML/AI(only mathematics), cybersecurity, etc. Finally, Web development caught my eye.

I spend a lot of time, faced many problems, but I hardly knew someone who can help me. Now when I look back, I realise how common those problems are and everyone faces a similar problem.

As time moved ahead, I got involved in open-source communities, felt what it is like to work in a team. It was different, it changed the way I think of a problem. Later the same year, the skills which I learned helped me get an Internships and opportunity to Lead Google’s Developer Students Club at my University.

Here I have listed some of the highlights of 2020.

I wrote 13 Articles

How to get started with Coding. — codeburst.io staff account
Hashing Revealed — The Startup
Build a Chrome Extension in less than 15 mins — Code Express
Django Login/Registration System — @Dev Genius
Guide to GitHub’s Student Developer Pack in 2020 — #BlackLivesMatter
Integrating Django with React — @Dev Genius
A Practical Roadmap for React Development — codeburst.io staff account
A Complete Guide to LocalStorage in JavaScript: Part-1 — The Startup
A Complete Guide to LocalStorage in JavaScript: Part-2 — The Startup
Understanding React — @Dev Genius
Developer Student Clubs — DSC VIT-Bhopal
Capabilities of Binary Search Algorithm: Part-1 — The Startup
Capabilities of Binary Search Algorithm: Part-2 — Medium

Commits on GitHub

Sessions and Talks

Info Session on Developer Students Club.
Inaugural Session of Developer Students Club.
Building Actions with Google.
Get it done with the Experts | Competitive Programming

Projects I worked on

Major

Open-Source Helper

An application that allows the user to find a relevant project from which he/she can learn and contribute, just by searching a skill or keyword based on the user’s interest

IPL data fetcher

Discovery page for IPL where users can search & use facet filters to find different entities — players, teams, owners & venus. Users should be able to filter based on any attributes related to the entity. It as easy, intuitive and as fewer steps as possible for the user to reach a particular entity.

WitQuake

We WitQuake is a startup to provide the customers with not only training but also a whole lot of IT services including Cyber Security, Application Development, Graphic Designing, Forensics, and a lot more. We are a Team of Experts, taking an initiative to solve the problems, people basically face when they are online. We aware of the threat, you take a step to safeguard it.

Django-URL-Shortener

Simple and fast URL shortener! This will allow reducing long links from Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linked In and top sites on the Internet, just paste the long URL and click the Shorten URL button.

Minor

Calculating-in-React

A simple calculator build using React Hooks

Number-Guessing-Web-App

I challenge provide by Triceria Solutions to brush up basic concepts of React Js

JavaScript30

30 Day Vanilla JS Coding Challenge. Build 30 things in 30 days with 30 tutorials. No Frameworks×No Compilers×No Libraries×No Boilerplate

Profile-Launcher-Extension

Build a simple Profile Manager which launches all your profiles through a single click.

There are several other projects as well, feel free to check them on my GitHub profile

Skills I worked on in 2020

General

Personal Branding
Leadership
Discipline
Communication

Technical Aspect

Django
React Js
Data Structures and Algorithms
Authentication and Security
API usage and testing.
6-star in Problem Solving and Programming HackerRank

Miscellaneous

Founder and Community Lead of Google’s Developer Student Club

Developer Student Clubs are university-based community groups for students interested in Google developer technologies.

Google collaborates with DSC Leads once a year who are pursuing an undergraduate or graduate university degree and supports them as they start and grow their on-campus community. DSC activities are targeted at University students and others including faculty members who want to learn development skills & work to solve real-life problems.

Mentored an Open-Source Project at StudentCode-in

Student Code-in is a global program to introduce university/pre-university students to open source software development. Student Code-in is often the first experience many students have with open source, the program is designed to make it easy for students to jump right in. I worked on Snippet-Share This is a code snippet sharing app that lets you share syntax-highlighted code snippets with easy copy-paste options and a secure secret code and a unique URL.

Got a 2-month Internship of Full Stack Web Developer at BeOfUse

Be of Use is a start-up that primarily focuses on bridging the skill gap prevailing, by installing the method of structured, deep, and practical learning. I was a Web Development Intern at BE Of Use. I was working on a project which includes tech stack like ReactJs, Django and GraphQL.

Got a 4-month Development Internship at SurveySparrow

SurveySparrow is an end to end Conversational Experience Management Platform that helps get a 40% better response rate. This internship will focus primarily on learning and developing new skills and gaining a deeper understanding of concepts through hands-on application.

Organiser of DSC WOW.

DSC Week Of Wonders, aka DSC WOW. A weeklong event consisting of 4 days of workshops/sessions and a 48 hours hackathon named CodeOffDuty. To us developers and tech enthusiasts, this is much more than a few workshops and a hackathon, it is a place where imagination meets the technology of tomorrow.

Organiser of The Coding Culture

The Coding Culture is an initiative of various leads of DSC chapters across India. This is a student-run open community that holds webinars, and contests every month. The flow goes like, a topic is selected for a month, whose resources are shared during month start, followed by a week-long webinar on the same topic.

Campus Ambassador, E-Cell, IIT Bombay

The Entrepreneurship Cell (E-Cell) is a non-profit organisation run by students of IIT Bombay. We create awareness among the students about Entrepreneurship through our various programs like workshops, speaker session and other such events. We support the upcoming Entrepreneurs by providing them necessary resources such as mentors, consultancy, seed fund and networking.

Google Cloud Facilitator

30 Days of Google Cloud program will provide you with an opportunity to kickstart your career in cloud and get hands-on practice on Google Cloud Platform — the tool that powers apps like Google Search, Gmail and YouTube.

Along the way, we learn & practice concepts like computing, application development, big data & machine learning using the cloud.

I am my own biggest critic. I am the one who has to go home and look at myself in the mirror.

Conclusion

All in all, it was a great year, and I learned a ton! It went by too fast. I’m excited for 2021. Thank you all for reading, contributing and emailing! Please don’t hesitate to send me an email at abhisheksrivastavabbn@gmail.com if you have any questions or comments or ideas. Have a great rest of the year!

Happy Coding!

Thanks a lot for reading till end. You can contact me in case if you need any assistance:

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Link to published article: Medium

2020 into 2021