Hello, my name is Omar Kawach

Established governance and practices to improve long‑term viability, cost‑efficiency, and delivery across Web GIS products.

Elevated product quality and customer outcomes through research, design, development, and rigorous end‑to‑end testing of web components.

Authored documentation, blogs, Esri magazine articles, presentations, tutorials, and template apps to accelerate adoption and onboarding.

Led the creation of internal knowledge resources, promoted resource fluidity, and co‑architected a refactor of a flagship no‑code app builder to significantly reduce build and deploy times.

• LLMs
• MCP
• Web components
• Lit
• Node
• TypeScript
• React
• Vue
• Angular
• Vite
• Astro
• Turborepo
• GitHub Actions
• Vitest
• Storybook
• ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript
• ArcGIS Online

Used ArcGIS, frontend and backend technologies (JavaScript, NodeJS, and Python) to implement a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) web application that allowed subject matter experts and the public to securely analyze and grab data from a map-based user interface.

• ArcGIS Enterprise
• ArcGIS REST JS
• ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript
• D3.js
• Node.js
• JavaScript/HTML/CSS
• Python
• ETL

Contribution Summary · Canadian Statistical Geospatial Explorer (if available)

Built a custom GIS web application with OpenLayers and D3 for University of British Columbia's Innovation Support Unit for health policy making decisions.

• OpenLayers
• D3.js
• JavaScript

UBC ISU Clinic Map 1 · UBC ISU Clinic Map 2

Built a COVID game simulator in Autodesk Forge Viewer (now Autodesk Platform Services) as a real-world application that could train industry practitioners to improve ventilation or spatial design, make informed risk assessments, and observe contact tracing.

Used OpenLayers, an open-source GIS library, to develop a web application that spatially represents Discrete Event System Specification (DEVS) simulation results.

• Autodesk Forge Viewer
• Three.js
• OpenLayers
• JavaScript
• C++

ARSLab · Internship Summary