{"id":1391,"date":"2018-07-31T10:23:01","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T14:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rhcollab\/?p=1391"},"modified":"2018-08-15T09:48:01","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T13:48:01","slug":"from-intern-to-employee-a-feature-interview-with-urvashi-mohnani-associate-software-engineer-at-red-hat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rhcollab\/2018\/07\/31\/from-intern-to-employee-a-feature-interview-with-urvashi-mohnani-associate-software-engineer-at-red-hat\/","title":{"rendered":"From Intern to Employee: A Feature Interview with Urvashi Mohnani, Associate Software Engineer at Red Hat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Urvashi Mohnani, Software Engineer at Red Hat, is a regular contributor to the open source community and Red Hat technology. As someone who entered college with no computer science experience, Urvashi never envisioned herself as a programmer. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI joined Red Hat about a year ago as an intern. I graduated with a Bachelors in Electrical and Computer Engineering and found my passion in software by the end of my senior year,\u201d she said. \u201c I didn’t have much industry experience in Software Engineering when I started at Red Hat, but my mentor and supervisor, Dan Walsh, was really helpful in getting me up to speed with the Red Hat Container Technologies like CRI-O<\/a> and OpenShift<\/a>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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When it came to transitioning into a full-time position, Urvashi choose Red Hat because of the open culture and strong community. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOpen source has helped me feel confident and supported because I have a community to collaborate with. I\u2019m never stuck wondering with questions like: Can I tell them about this? Can I do that? It’s all out in the open.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

During her time at Red Hat, Urvashi has been involved in contributing to the <\/span>ChRIS project<\/span><\/a>. This was an opportunity made possible by the <\/span>Red Hat Boston University Collaboratory<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe ChRIS project is an initiative to cut down the time radiologists spend staring at images everyday, so that patients can receive instantaneous results.\u201d she said. \u201cOpen source is great because you can share and get help from the community. It\u2019s nice not to be restricted to only a few developers on a team.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

When she isn\u2019t contributing directly to the Collaboratory projects, Urvashi works with the <\/span>OpenShift <\/span><\/a>Runtimes team to improve products like <\/span>Podman<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Buildah<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>CRI-O<\/span><\/a>, and <\/span>Skopeo<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThese are basically products for image building, running containers, and container debugging,\u201d she explained. \u201cThe goal is to make our products the default.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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In the future, Urvashi hopes to get her MBA and continue developing her career at Red Hat, her main motivation being to give back to underprivileged children in her home country of Ghana. <\/span><\/p>\n

If you want to learn more about internship and career opportunities at Red Hat, visit their <\/span>job portal<\/span><\/a> starting in August. <\/span><\/p>\n

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