Havish Sripada is a dedicated student from Portland, Oregon, who attends Jesuit High School and has dual enrollment at Portland State University. He enjoys computer science and math and is the lead programmer of a First Tech Challenge robotics team 12808 RevAmped Robotics. He is also an internationally recognized chess player with the FIDE Master title. He has also done numerous volunteering and outreach with companies such as the Oregon Robotics Tournament & Outreach Program.
He chose to work at DARTCC because he was inspired by the story behind the company and the underlying mission behind the innovative application that the company focuses on developing. DARTCC’s quest truly resonates with Havish due to personal incidents. At the beginning of 2024, a fire broke out in Havish’s house and forced him to move to a rental. Understanding the regular occurrence of disasters in our world, he recognizes the importance of developing simple and efficient ways to deal with these emergencies. Havish believes that the EASapp will save many animal lives, and he wishes to participate in this vision.
Havish believes working in this internship will provide him with invaluable professional experience in software testing, something he will use throughout his life in his future programming projects. He hopes that developing these technical skills, as well as other useful skills such as teamwork, project management, and time management, will help him be more successful in his other activities such as robotics.
Havish hopes to help DARTCC by testing their software to make sure the application will run smoothly with minimum errors. Applying his prior experience of software testing from robotics, he hopes to learn how to methodologically test various segments of code in a way that makes it easy for programmers to pinpoint mistakes in their logic. Havish hopes that he will make a difference in the application’s performance during his time at DARTCC, and will continue to work hard to ensure a smooth launch of the EASappTM.