"As an intern at Seagate Technology, I explored designs for scalable data processing to support the delivery of real-time analytics. My supervisor gave me the opportunity to steer my own internship journey, allowing me to experiment with ways to improve stream performance," shares Manuel Stephen Seet, winner of the Accenture Prize held on 6 October 2022.
Today, Manuel is a Software Engineer at Seagate, as he kick-start his career in tech.
Projects and internships are invaluable learning grounds for our Graduate Diploma in System Analysis (GDipSA) students to put into practice what they have learnt in the classroom and make ideas come to life in the real-world.
From L to R: Tan Zhe Rui, Manuel Stephen Seet & Chua Shu Ern were part of the SA53 Accenture Industrial Attachment Project Presentation. They are pictured here in a relaxed setting - Oasiss, the courtyard of the NUS-ISS building.
Zhe Rui shared, "I had a great internship where our team was given the opportunity to develop a product from scratch. We had to learn some new technologies really quickly and work under many tight timelines, but we were given the freedom to be creative in our code implementations and this helped me to get the most out of learning to build an enterprise level project."
Shu Ern chimed in with some tips on his internship journey, " My team came up with a 'crisis meeting' concept. We would go into a private room to stop, share and solve whatever problems that we were facing as a team. That had accelerated my learning during my internship."
This rigorous five months internship experience was indeed no walk in the park and culminated in an Industrial Attachment Project Presentation for three outstanding projects that drove business value for their organisations. Their internships spanned very different industries, from leading providers of a data storage company to an enterprise-grade technology platform and future health technology.
Shining the light on our graduates projects
First to share was Manuel who interned at Seagate Singapore and became the team’s first Java developer to use Kafka, a Factory Resource Insight (FRI) that delivers real-time factory analytics to optimise equipment utilisation & quality control. Manuel achieved this through stream processing apps with high throughput for the FRI system and delivered long-term value which has multiplier benefits for the team beyond the internship. In addition Manuel worked on a plug-and-play Kafka library and documentation that reduces development time by other backend engineers, and thus, reduced development costs.
Next was Chua Shu Ern, Tang Wenyi and Tan Zhe Rui. Their internship with KAPPS Consulting saw their project on the Trade Finance and Integration Workflow Module, serve as a common module to facilitate communication between the bank and TFR and reduce financing fraud. They fortified this vulnerability by improving the transparency of transactions and bridging the information asymmetry among banks. This allowed multiple financing of the same document by banks to be detected.
Last but not least, Gavin Erh's project in Future Health Technology and Health Data Governance had been useful in detecting errors in applications and potential malicious intrusions into the system where he worked with Graylog as a logging platform and more. The set up of logging server improves the security of the system by allowing users to be notified when the internal system has an security issue.
A photo opportunity of all the groups on Accenture Presentation Day with NUS-ISS Management, Senior Managing Director, Market Unit Lead - Southeast Asia, Country Managing Director, Accenture Singapore, Ms Ng Wee Wei, Programme Chief, Dr Esther Tan and Senior Lecturer & Consultant, Software Systems Practice, Mr Chia Yuen Kwan.
"My biggest takeaway from my internship experience is that if you reach out for opportunities and put in honest hard work, you’ll find that there is an endless number of things you can learn and accomplish at the same time. You’ll truly come to understand what they mean by “the-sky-is-the-limit," added Zhe Rui, who would be the valedictorian of his batch.
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