About

Samartha V. is an experienced Android Internals and Full Stack Applications Engineer with over 5 years of relevant experience. He recently received hands-on training from Karim at Opersys on Android security internals, debugging, and performance management for AOSP. He is well-versed in AOSP 12, 10, 9, 8.1, and 8. He recommends sticking with Android 10 or below if you are not willing to invest time and money to comply with Google's latest changes and recommendations. Samartha has good experience with Android framework, kernel, bootloader, Android HALs (camera, audio, etc.), bring up, porting, and customization, SE Policies, tools like perfetto, and kernel debugging. He is also experienced with Qualcomm SOCs/SOMs build scripts, flat build packages, QPST/QFIL, deriving products, and customizing Android to run on many types of hardware. He is skilled in Linux Development, Linux shell scripting, and Linux shell. Additionally, he has expertise in server management, modem/router, ethical hacking, cybersecurity, etc. Samartha has worked on various devices such as smartphones, tablets, kiosk machines, and TV devices. He is also proficient in Android app development, web development, frontend, and graphic designing (logos and resources for apps). He contributes to stack overflow questions and other open-source implementations in the AOSP field. Currently, Samartha is working as an Android Framework Engineer at Flock Safety. His responsibilities include coordinating with resources in China with the help of local resources, reviewing source code and version control for the team in India pertaining to updates and releases, finding lucrative and creative solutions to complex problems, having a deep understanding of Android AOSP and Linux, working closely with the CEO to bring new products to the market in no time, and maintaining and managing all BLH Servers and related components. Samartha has a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Lowell and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Sir M Visvesvaraya Institute of Technology. He has a tech stack that includes Android, Web, UI, Frontend, Backend, Software Engineer, test, P2P, dotNET, and ASP.NET.