Backend Engineering Intern
Jul 2026 to Present
Circo Digital Academy — Orange Internship Programme · Remote
- Built and deployed the full backend for MarketCompare, a crowd sourced local food price comparison platform, across nine development phases as part of a five person cross functional team.
- Implemented authentication, price submission with idempotency and throttling, market comparison and trend endpoints, flagging and moderation, and analytics event ingestion using NestJS, PostgreSQL (Neon), Prisma, and Redis (Upstash).
- Deployed staging and production environments to a self managed Hetzner VPS using Nginx, pm2, and Certbot.
- Placed 3rd at the Week 3 checkpoint review with a score of 98.5 out of 100.