Men's Soccer Wubshit Interned at Google in Summer of 2018

(Parts of Story Courtesy of udallas.edu)

IRVING, Texas – Yeabkal Wubshit (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) committed this past summer to an internship at Google. A junior computer science major with a concentration in applied mathematics, Wubshit applied online for the position through the company's careers site. After being contacted by a recruiter and earning the position after completing the interview process, Wubshit spent the summer of 2018 working on infrastructures for Google Service Accounts at Google's office in Sunnyvale, California.

"Some of the technical skills I learned included facing ambiguous and large-scale challenges, collaborating with engineers, and approaching problems from a different perspective," said Wubshit. "I was also exposed to an extraordinarily vibrant culture where everyone is so passionate about and dedicated to what they do. One of the things I liked most about my internship was the amount of freedom and responsibility that I was given for my project work, and the amount of invaluable experience that I gained from working with highly experienced engineers."

Wubshit is a three-year member on the Dallas men's soccer team. He has been selected to the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Fall Student-Athlete Academic Honor Roll his first two years (2016, 2017) at UD.

Wubshit discovered the University of Dallas from a friend who now also attends the institution. One of Wubshit's deciding factors for UD was its small size.

Regarding his computer science major, Wubshit said, "What I love most is the intellectual freedom you have as a problem solver. Of course at the end of the day you are trying to get the optimum solution for a problem, but there are possibly multiple ways to get there. I like the fact that computer science allows you to approach problems from different perspectives and through different available tools. Also, I'm interested in building and creating things, and computer science allows me to do just that." Although he is not quite sure exactly what the future holds in store, Wubshit plans to use his expertise after graduation to become a software engineer.