{"id":21855,"date":"2023-09-01T13:05:14","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T13:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northbaysolutions.com\/blog\/co-op-aws-services-program-tobi-onibudo\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T13:34:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T13:34:44","slug":"co-op-aws-services-program-tobi-onibudo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northbaysolutions.com\/blog\/co-op-aws-services-program-tobi-onibudo\/","title":{"rendered":"Co-op AWS Services Program – Tobi Onibudo"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Tobi Onibudo | Co-Op Student, Dalhousie University
\nThird and final Co-op Internship performed at NorthBay<\/i><\/span><\/p><\/h6><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

By Geoff Duncan | Senior Principal Architect | Senior Practice Director<\/h6><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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On the NorthBay Experience:<\/h2><\/div>

When Tobi Onibudo, a second-year computer science major at Dalhousie University, learned about the NorthBay Co-op Internship Program, he decided to take the leap and apply. With a deep interest in all things cloud, NorthBay seemed like the ideal company for his first co-op experience. Read on to learn more.<\/p>\n<\/div>

Applying for your first co-op internship can be pretty scary. Were you confident you would be accepted?<\/h2><\/div>

Yes, it can be scary, and it was! However, I believed I could meet the requirements, so even though I knew there was a lot of competition for this role, I decided to apply. And I\u2019m so glad that I did.<\/p>\n<\/div>

Going into the program, what goals did you set for yourself?<\/h2><\/div>

As I began the program, I aimed to learn more about what it takes to create scalable software solutions. I wanted to learn about best-practice processes, tools and techniques. More specifically, I wanted to get hands-on experience working with AWS services.<\/p>\n<\/div>

Do you feel that you achieved those goals?<\/h2><\/div>

Absolutely! My NorthBay mentors willingly answered all my questions \u2013 and I had a lot of them. They also provided lots of helpful resources to help learn about AWS services. However, the hands-on experience working on actual projects, as well as the opportunity to collaborate and share ideas with Trusha<\/a>, my fellow co-op student, were instrumental to my success<\/p>\n<\/div>

What projects did you work on?<\/h2><\/div>

The first project I worked on involved creating the environment required to launch a web server in the cloud, using AWS EC2, VPC, and IAM services. Thinking through and implementing security protocols for the server was both interesting and challenging.<\/p>\n

I also worked on a web application that displayed company fillings from the SEC website. I utilized a web scraping Python script, AWS RDS, and created a web API to complete the back end. The user interface was completed using React.<\/p>\n

Lastly, I worked on a data lake project to enable a NorthBay client to gain insights into how users interact with their products. This was completed utilizing a Python script, AWS Glue, AWS Kinesis, AWS S3, AWS Athena, and Snowflake.<\/p>\n<\/div>

What was the best part(s) of your experience?<\/h2><\/div>

So many things really. Learning all about the development cycle for a web application was a real highlight. Overall, it was a great opportunity to build on the skills I had and gain a ton of new ones<\/p>\n<\/div>

What advice would you give to future Co-op students?<\/h2><\/div>

Be open to learning new concepts. NorthBay really cares about your learning and development, so don\u2019t be scared to try new things or to ask questions.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,38,58,1],"tags":[57,88,33],"class_list":["post-21855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-big-data-data-lake-analytics","category-cloud-migration-services","category-ml-ai","tag-all-industries","tag-exclude","tag-tech-saas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northbaysolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/northbaysolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/northbaysolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northbaysolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northbaysolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21855"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/northbaysolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24790,"href":"https:\/\/northbaysolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21855\/revisions\/24790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northbaysolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northbaysolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northbaysolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northbaysolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}