Arbeena Hassan
Arbeena Hassan
Student, Global Academy of Technology, Karnataka
“Landing my role as a Software Engineer at IBM feels like a dream come true—Next Gen EmployabilityProgram helped me make it happen,” shared Arbeena Hassan, a 22 year old, who always wanted to be anengineer but had little hands-on backend practice. Coming from a strong academic background, shejoined the six-week MERN-stack program to gain the practical skills that academic courses alone couldn’tprovide.
During the program, Arbeena built RESTful APIs with Node.js and Express, structured data in MongoDB,and worked on server-performance optimizations. Each day she completed hands-on labs, used mentorfeedback to fix bugs, and practiced until she could reliably deploy a working backend service. Thesefocused exercises turned theoretical concepts into usable code and gave her the confidence to tacklereal-world problems.
By the end of the program, Arbeena had built multiple backend modules and honed her debuggingprocess—experience that directly led to her securing the Software Engineer position at IBM. “Writingcode every day and testing my solutions under real conditions was the key,” she reflects. The IndustryExpert master sessions guided her to understand the latest trends and shared insights on how they usethese skills we are learning on a daily basis.
“I built in confidence to sit for an interview without feeling nervous through the placement skill sessions”She added. Arbeena finally said, “If you want to go from theory to a professional role, this program showsyou exactly how.”myself,
