Wayner Barrios
Research Associate - Robotics Institute
Greater Pittsburgh Region United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWayner Barrios is a Research Associate at Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute and a co-founder of a tech startup, bringing 10 years of applied AI, computer vision, and robotics experience to research and product work. He blends electronics engineering training with hands-on software development—contributing backend improvements to the widely used MapProxy project to harden tile caching and WMS/WMTS dimension handling for production geospatial systems. His background includes research roles at KAUST and Universidad del Norte, consulting for the World Bank and Harvard’s Center for Geographic Analysis, and building cloud-native, scalable open-source tools at Piensa Labs. Comfortable in both research labs and startup trenches, he pairs deep technical rigor with pragmatic system-building skills across computer vision, ML, and virtualization. An often-overlooked strength is his cross-domain fluency—moving from low-level caching and CI fixes to high-level activity recognition research—enabling him to bridge research prototypes into reliable deployments.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange program engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, Exchange program engineering, Mechatronics Engineering at Tecnológico de MonterreyDeep Learning Nanodegree Foundation, Computer Science, Nanodegree, Deep Learning Nanodegree Foundation, Computer Science, Nanodegree at UdacityBachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Electronics Engineering at Universidad del NorteVisiting Student Electrical Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Visiting Student Electrical Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
English, Spanish
Github Skills (8)
wms10
geo10
caching10
proxy10
python10
tile-server9
iso9
mts8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
mapproxy/mapproxy
Aug 2020 - Oct 2020
MapProxy is a tile cache and WMS proxy
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 7 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Wayner primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the `mapproxy` project, focusing on enhancing its caching capabilities and fixing bugs. Their work included adding support for caching dimension layers with WMS and WMTS, improving the handling of time ranges and other parameters, and addressing issues in dimension handling within the file cache. Furthermore, the user was involved in fixing Travis CI errors and resolving merge conflicts, indicating involvement in the build and integration processes. These changes suggest a focus on improving the functionality and stability of the caching and WMS proxy features of the project.
wpspythonwfsproxygeo
waybarrios/wat
Apr 2019 - Oct 2023
Contributions:4 PRs, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 7 months
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