Shubham Malhotra's Big Tech journey began during his fifth semester at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) , where he was juggling coursework with a co-op at a real estate-focused tech firm. While gaining experience and refining his résumé, Malhotra — who grew up in New Delhi, moved to the US to study software engineering, and is now a software engineer at Amazon — applied to roles at top tech companies. He landed internships at Salesforce in the summer of 2021 and at Amazon AWS in the