William Cabrera

Web Developer at Université de Sherbrooke

Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada

About

Experience

  • Web Developer at Université de Sherbrooke
    Jun 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 1 mo

    * Development and maintenance of Quebec Biodiversity Web portal (https://biodiversite-quebec.ca/) using NextJs (React framework). * Development and maintenance dashboard for Quebec Biodiversity project called Altas (https://biodiversite-quebec.ca/fr/atlas/). ReacJst * Collaborated in the migration of the web site https://www.e-butterfly.org/ from Angular 5 to NextJs. * Participated in the design and the implementation of our Devops solution (docker containerization and automatic deployments). * Put in place a headless cms (Strapi) solution to feed our Web portal. This approach allows the rest of the team (stakeholders, researchers, students from our Lab, partners, other devs) to add and update content (articles, indicators related to the ecology).

  • Masters Student at Nova Bus, a division of Volvo Group Canada Inc.
    Jul 2020 - Apr 2021 · 10 mos

    Worked in a research project in partnership with Nova Bus, a division of Volvo Group Canada Inc. My contribution in this project was related to the perception aspect for autonomous vehicles. I developed a solution to improve object detection and distance estimation based on artificial intelligence techniques such as Convolutional Neural Network (YOLO, MASK-RCNN) and Clustering.

  • Université de Sherbrooke (3 yrs 3 mos)
    • Masters Student
      Sep 2018 - Apr 2021 · 2 yrs 8 mos

      Master in Electric Engineering. Area of research Autonmous Vehicles, Artificial Intelligence (CNN, clustering)

    • Visiting Research Assistant and Scholar
      Feb 2018 - Aug 2018 · 7 mos

      An immersive simulation project of an orthopedic surgery operation. The project is carried out in collaboration with the Faculty of Medicine of the Université de Sherbrooke. The goal is to develop a virtual reality platform that makes it possible to reproduce the gestures performed during the surgical procedure.

  • Network Administrator at TelePinar, Telecentro Provincial
    Sep 2013 - Jan 2018 · 4 yrs 5 mos

  • Thesis Mentoring at Universidad de Pinar del Rio
    Sep 2016 - Jun 2017 · 10 mos

    Environmental parameter control system for medicine storage chambers using arduino yún and android device (embedded systems and mobile development).