Eli Hodges Interns at OPeNDAP

During the summer and fall of 2019, Eli interned at OPeNDAP locally in Butte. His duties centered around the analysis of Google Cloud functions. The company was unsure whether they wanted to pursue serverless computing via Google or Amazon so Eli was brought on to help inform their decision making. This was an internship that valued independence and self-direction. Eli had frequent meetings with the team, specific team members, and his direct supervisor to ensure the information he was generating was valuable. Eli was given complete open-ended authority as to how to approach each situation. As a result this internship was very creative.

Above everything else this internship taught him the value of communication and flexibility. The faster Eli was able to show his work to his supervisor, the more valuable his work ended up being.