This was a role that started in May 2018 and ran until August 2018. Maple leaf foods ran a co-op program called Digital Innovation where you'd work on a team with other co-ops and try and solve challenges that the company was facing on the production floor. It was sold as a "4 month long hackathon".
I was hired along with 6 other students from around the GTA. Together we built an iOS application used by 175 Food Safety and Quality Assurance managers, supervisors, and technicians, backed by a .NET MVC 5 service on Azure. When we did reporting at the end of our co-op, we were able to identify that the app gave our users 25% more time on the production floor.
I worked mainly on the backend, helping build the infrastructure so that the number of production lines and products produced could be recorded. I also did some UI work in iOS helping with updating some of the forms for the new endpoints created. This also included reporting where the backend would sync the reports nightly to an internal tracking system.
While working together, React was becoming the next big frontend framework. The team spent our free time developing a component library for use for future co-ops.