software that museums use; I gained an insight into collections management, curatorial, and conservation roles and I learnt a lot of art history along the way. In terms of my future career ambitions, interning in a museum, especially an old one immersed in tradition, has confirmed for me that working in a modern institution, more focused on current artists, is what I am really interested in. The access I had during my time at the Ashmolean to all parts of museum life has also shown me that a collections management role could be, for me, as exciting as a curatorial or educational one.
TRADE DESK (THE) Alfred Bullus, Brasenose College, Final year undergraduate, MMath Mathematics, Remote working Work Projects The Trade Desk runs a platform that buys advertisements programmatically on behalf of client companies. I worked as a Software Engineer in the Data Processing team. The platform the company runs operates at very high scale and throughput, and so there are large numbers of logs that need to be processed. The team that I was a part of maintains the system that does this. For the 12 week internship I was given a project to investigate and demonstrate a new way of running the system that processes the logs. This involved a collection of modern technologies, such as Docker a container creation system, Kubernetes a container orchestration system, and Apache Airflow a task scheduling system. I mainly spent the first three weeks getting myself set up and learning about the technologies I would be using. Then I had to familiarise myself with the problems of the current approach and the company’s codebase. Finally, I had to work on my demonstration, and at the end of the internship I gave a presentation on the work I had done. My main support throughout the
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