Hi Eric, Thank you for sharing your experience with us. Tell us a little about yourself to our readers?

I I live in Southern California with my wife and two teenage boys.  I enjoy fishing, biking and playing basketball with my boys. I have been a software developer my entire 20+ year career. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-wong-a390431)

At Asha Hope Amanaki, what were your roles and responsibilities as a volunteer in the team?

I helped Asha Hope Amanaki add new features to an existing scheduling tool based on google Sheet that they were using to coordinate their meal distribution. I also went on to create a Hashtag organizing tool for them. For rapid development and deployment, it is also based on Google Sheets augmented with custom programming through Google Apps Script. This new tool allows the social media team to organize hundreds of Hastag based on categories and generates relevant Hashtags on request for use in the social media postings

For students interested in participating with us, what would you say, you learnt from this opportunity?

It has been rewarding helping a nonprofit in their mission. 

Since this was a remote opportunity, what would you say were the biggest advantages and disadvantages?

The advantages are being able to help even though we are physically located in different states and working whenever we want.

A disadvantage is not being able to make a human connection that comes from face to face meetings.