William Guevara
Software Engineer Specialist at ScotiaTech
Bucaramanga, Santander, Colombia
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Guevara is a Software Engineer Specialist with 10 years of experience combining embedded electronics, systems engineering and full-stack software development, currently at ScotiaTech in Bucaramanga, Colombia. He holds a MSc in Systems Engineering from Universidad Industrial de Santander and has applied his expertise to GPS device management, low-power compute platforms (Raspberry Pi, Jetson, Intel Edison) and industrial algorithms for the oil sector. William has a strong background in C++, Python and legacy scientific languages like FORTRAN, plus practical skills in Docker, GitLab, Jenkins, Oracle SQL and web technologies. As a researcher and educator he taught operating systems, computer architecture and distributed microservices, bridging academic rigor with production engineering. He is an active open-source contributor to Spyder IDE, improving editor features and UX—evidence of attention to developer workflows beyond typical embedded work. Known for blending hardware-software integration with data and ML experiments, he excels at turning research insights into reliable, testable systems.
10 years of coding experience
Maestría en Ingeniería de Sistemas e Informática, Systems Engineering, 4.8, Maestría en Ingeniería de Sistemas e Informática, Systems Engineering, 4.8 at Universidad Industrial de Santander
Github Skills (9)
code-editor10
spyder10
editors10
pyqt10
qt10
editor10
python10
user-interface9
git4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
spyder-ide/spyder
Oct 2016 - Dec 2016
Official repository for Spyder - The Scientific Python Development Environment
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:30 PRs, 1 push, 70 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:William primarily contributed to the Spyder IDE's editor functionality. Their work involved implementing new features, such as upper/lowercase text conversion, and fixing existing functionality related to saving files and file extensions. The commits show modifications to the editor's core components, configuration files, and related widgets, showcasing a focus on enhancing the user experience and improving the editor's usability. They also added and modified shortcuts, demonstrating an awareness of user interaction and workflow optimization.
pythonpyqt5anaconda-distributionanacondapyqt
malliwi88/myGPSTk_python
Oct 2016 - Feb 2019
Contributions:23 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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