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I’m a 3rd-year Computer Science student with 18 months of hands-on Android project development experience, building a real, feature-rich social media app called Sparrow from scratch and now available on the Google Play Store. I care about shipping polished user experiences and building maintainable, production-ready features.

I’m comfortable with Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and MVVM, and I’ve designed MVVM across 15+ screens using StateFlow-driven state management and a centralized Repository layer. For Sparrow, I implemented a Reels-style vertical video feed using ViewPager2 and ExoPlayer with lifecycle-aware playback to achieve consistent 60fps scrolling on mid-range devices, while improving feed rendering efficiency by ~30% with RecyclerView + DiffUtil.

I also integrate real-time interaction flows with Firebase Firestore listeners for likes, comments, and notifications, making the app feel more responsive than earlier polling-based approaches. In addition, I set up Dagger Hilt for dependency injection and used Glide with a disk + memory caching strategy to reduce image flicker on slow networks, improving cold scroll smoothness.

Beyond my app work, I contributed production-merged PRs to the global financial-inclusion open-source platform Mifos Initiative, refactoring UI components to MaterialTheme-based theming and resolving layout spacing and accessibility issues across 8+ screens. I’m now looking for an Android internship where I can learn from a senior team while contributing meaningfully from day one.