Building the future: highlights from Dropbox’s 2025 summer intern class
2025-11-26
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Hicham Badri,Appu Shaji,Craig Wilhite,Josh Clemm,Jason Shang,Artem Nabirkin,Dropbox Team,Ameya Bhatawdekar
Endigest AI Core Summary
Dropbox's 2025 Camp Dropbox Intern Program welcomed 43 interns from 27 colleges across multiple countries for a 12-week program focused on meaningful engineering contributions.
- •28 engineering interns accumulated over 6,000 hours of one-on-one mentorship while working on high-impact projects tied to Dropbox Dash, the company's AI-powered universal search product
- •Projects spanned ML model deployment monitoring (AI Sentinel), multilingual search expansion to 20+ languages, front-end latency reduction in Magic Pocket storage, and AI-powered code migration automation
- •An intern on Analytics Platform optimized Databricks ETL pipelines and prototyped an Airflow pipeline to migrate a 500 TB mobile events log to liquid clustering
- •Other contributions included a document preview experience in Dash, adaptive anomaly detection for the Vortex2 metrics system, and an extensible AI web-automation agent integrated with Dropbox APIs
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#Dash
#Search
#AI
