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Nugget externship

Four weeks on a cross-functional team, building features for Nugget's Trusted Parent Reviews: helping parents find family-friendly restaurants through reviews grounded in real family context.

An externship through TripleTen, working with Nugget App LLC.

  • When 4 weeks · 2026
  • Role Software engineer
  • Stack React · Vite · Node.js · Express
  • Team 2 engineers, 2 QA, 2 UX/UI, across time zones
  • Status ● Completed · with a written recommendation from my engineering mentor

The challenge

Parents choosing a restaurant want to know how it went for families like theirs. The feature lets a parent choose a reaction, select which children were there, add optional restaurant tags and notes, submit the review and see a confirmation.

What I built

  • Guided review submission, in four steps: a reaction, the children's age groups, contextual tags, and notes. In the externship's feature branch, a submitted review appears immediately after you submit it.
  • Community groups: discover groups, join or leave them, and create, edit or delete your own, with validation and a confirmation before anything destructive.

I built community groups and a four-step review flow using mocked sign-in and mock data that persisted across page reloads. The work did not connect to Nugget's live database.

Working with QA and design

I built from the UX/UI team's designs and worked through QA's feedback with a team spread across time zones. The other engineer and I reviewed each other's pull requests.