Omkar J Suvarna

Handheld navigation application (SmartNav)

• Developed a maintainable and scalable codebase with MVVM architecture, organizing modular components to ensure clear separation of concerns, and support future growth.
• Contributed significantly to the development of an advanced offline navigation application for proprietary hardware, leveraging a custom operating system and utilizing both Java and Kotlin.
• Spearheaded the end-to-end UI development for custom hardware, designing the complete landscape interface, and contributing significantly to the portrait UI from the ground up.
• Contributed to the development of advanced geocoordinate processing within Android, implementing position calculations across multiple formats, integrating geodetic datums, and utilizing the JNI interface for native code integration.
• Enhanced app functionality and reliability by contributing to navigation, mapping, data logging, and overall stability improvements.
• Skilled in the GNSS domain, with experience in tailoring receiver outputs and parsing data effectively to deliver precise information to the app, specifically through integration with the Android location object.