Kristen placed her hand into the hand-print lock of the Sirius Software HQ, and the door swung open with a soft hiss. She stepped inside, taking a deep breath as she entered the sleek, black-glass encased lobby.
She took the elevator to the 32nd floor, buzzing in anticipation for the second day of her internship.
"Good afternoon, Professor Zakhrov," she said, seeing Ivan in the massive office space.
Ivan waved good-naturedly, and disappeared into his cubicle.
Kristen approached her own cubicle, and powered on the computer.
"Wait, Aaron Zakhrov himself made changes to the code I pushed?" she exclaimed as she pulled in the repository changes.
She eagerly went over the modifications. They were small tweaks, but they were squeezing out more performance than her initial code/
"Wow!" she gasped, as she ran a small test program, and saw that the CPU overhead had been reduced by nearly 16%.
