At IIT Bombay, I got the opportunity to work as System Administrator of Electrical Department. 3 years work in this Lab has been the best learning experience for me.
What we do :
o Website Development :
- Department Website : www.ee.iitb.ac.in - We worked in a team of 4-5 RAs on developing the frontend of website as well as Dashboard for faculties, office and students. (Faculty Incharge - Prof. Animesh Kumar , Prof. Kumar Appaiah )
- PCLab Website : www.ee.iitb.ac.in/pclab - I started this website development as an assignment for learning Drupal.
- Course Material Portal : I and one fellow RA - Ritesh worked on development of course material portal for faculties where faculties can upload their class notes, papers, reference material and timeline for lectures etc for each subject. This information can be very useful for new faculties taking up a course. (Faculty Adviser : Prof. Dinesh Sharma)
- Others : Thesis Database portal, Admission portal, Department Moodle, Placement preparation test portal, Faculty wiki pages etc internal portals
o Provide mail service, storage space, computing facilities and network facilities to department
o Designed, conducted and evaluated the M.Tech admissions and RA recruitment entrance tests and selection process every year
What I learnt :
- HTML, PHP, MySQL, basics of Java, CSS
- Website frameworks as Drupal, Wordpress, Moodle, Wiki
- LDAP, Mail server development and management
- Networking Basics
- Different Linus OS
- Server Management
- Use of scripting for several automation work- Learnt Python and Perl
My Fellow RAs :
During my 3 years in Lab, I have got the opportunity of working with 8 senior RAs and 8 Junior RAs. Each RA coming from different background and having different skills, I got ample opportunities of learning from all. We had great working environment in the Lab.
We had RAs from different specialization, which gave me the opportunity of understanding their field and acquiring more breadth.
We had Birthday celebrations, Farewells, Teachers's day celebration, Saraswati Pooja in Lab. We went on many trips and treks also.