Parul Aggarwal

I'm a curious person who loves to solve problems making them easy and interesting to work upon. I'm a backend developer, python lover, and open source evangelist currently exploring about blockchain these days.
Recently I worked on a project for an online hackathon on hackerearth by Hasura, and our team project stood 2nd runner up. The description and code for the same can be found here: https://github.com/parulagg27/WSReportBot. The project I worked on with my teammate was not complex but definitely made us learn a lot of things down the way. Some learnings I would like to mention here as follows:

1. setting up slack commands manually for our slack bot (the most challenging part for us and it took 2 days reading documentation and fixing everything to set commands successfully).
2. I learnt about cron jobs and how to set up them in your project, to run a script regularly and store and update the data on daily basis for a redundant task
3. Learnt about using a new platform Hasura for deployment services, setting backend of project in minutes, using it's APIs for data, filestore and authentication and boilerplates for projects of different techstacks.
4. Team and time management: My teammate was in a different state because of his college, so, I learnt to work on a project remotely with your teammates. We used to have long hangouts calls to discuss ideas and their implementations, along with doc sharing to share MoMs easily.
   Another important thing as I mentioned here is time management. Since, the phase for working on idea was overlapping with my end term semester exams with 1/2 days break in each, I had to keep a balance between two to make sure, I dont lose my grades and submit a good quality mvp for my project with my teammate. This was something I worked on for the first time, giving time to things other than exams( with 1/2 days for each exam) and was worth the efforts. The sense of achievement winning my first hackathon and that too working for it during exam time was totally unmatched.