Metricwire Internship

Flutter Mobile Developer, Co-op Experience

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My first internship was with MetricWire which is a company that aims to provide a powerful researching tool to its clients. Some current and upcoming clients for the company include: the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the National Cancer Institute (NCI), Public Health Ontario (PHO), Brown University, Leipzig University, and John Hopkins University.


My role within the company was as a Mobile Developer where I:

•Spearheaded the enhancement of the company's codebase by integrating Flutter in Android Studio, enabling seamless cross-platform mobile app development.

•Drove efficient data handling through JSON parsing, balancing synchronous and asynchronous programming methods, ensuring real-time data processing and smooth app performance.

•Owned feature page of app by integrating dynamic text fields, multimedia elements such as images and videos, all dynamically populated and optimized using data extracted from JSON via the Hive local database to increase usability and convenience by 300%.

•Championed software quality by writing and executing comprehensive unit and integration tests, ensuring robust functionality, and a seamless user experience across updates and iterations.

CONTACT ME

desmond.nixon@uwaterloo.ca