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William Kpabitey Kwabla

Sofware Engineer | Research & Development Engineer

MSc Computer Science '22, UCA(USA)

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About Me

William Kpabitey Kwabla is a Software Engineer and Research & Development Engineer. William received his Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Central Arkansas in the United States after previously completing his BSc in Computer Science at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.

A detailed-oriented, responsible, and committed engineer, William has designed, implemented, and tested complex web, mobile, virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and machine learning applications using a variety of programming languages and technologies. William is also a quick learner with strong problem-solving, leadership, management, and communication skills, comfortable working as a team or individually.

In his free time, William writes articles on Medium and contributes to the Open-Source community.

Work Experience

Software Engineer III - Walmart Global Tech (Bentonville, USA) (Jul 2022 - Present )

• Researching, conceiving and developing software applications to extend and improve on Walmart's technology and collaborating on scalability issues involving access to massive amounts of data and information.
• Participating in the discovery phase of projects to come up with a high-level design.

Graduate Research Assistant - ViRaMIS Lab, University of Central Arkansas (Conway, USA) (Jan 2020 - Jun 2022)

• Improving the training of surgical residents by designing and developing a Virtual Rotator Cuff Arthroscopic Skill Trainer (ViRCAST) to virtually simulate arthroscopic rotator cuff repair surgery.
• Contributing to the surgical simulation community by developing dynamic-link libraries (DLLs) for Haptic Devices to communicate with Interactive Medical Simulation Toolkit (iMSTK) through Unity.
• Improved engineering standards, tooling, and processes by documenting old projects and setting standards for future projects.
- Technologies Being Used: Python, JavaScript, C#, C/C++, Docker, WebRTC, Unity, iMSTK, Arduino, VR/AR, Machine Learning, HTML/CSS, Git, Google Cloud Platform(GCP).

Software Engineer - mPedigree (Accra, Ghana) (Sep 2018 – Dec 2019)

• Increased server response time for web and mobile clients by scaling infrastructure to support millions of requests per hour.
• Improved performance of web portals by restructuring APIs and implementing caching.
• Improved code quality design, and overall design of current and future infrastructure by using industry best practices.
- Technologies Used: Python, Django, HTML/CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript, Vue.js, Docker, Git.

Remote Web Developer - Stellar Talents (San Francisco, California) (Jan 2018 – Dec 2019)

• Designed and Developed a job portal that matched 50 candidates to 20 companies worldwide.
• Improved website performance on both mobile and web by 80% by using caching, minifying static files and reducing image sizes.
- Technologies Used: WordPress, MySQL, PHP, HTML/CSS, PayPal, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Google Analytics.

Remote Webmaster - Dignified Wear (Sunyani, Ghana) (Jul 2017 – Jul 2019)

• Designed, developed and Improved the Dignified Wear E-commerce website performance on both mobile and web by 80% by using caching, minifying static files and reducing image sizes.
• Increased sales by 20% in the first 3 months of launching by using Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Google analytics to increase traffic.
- Technologies Used: WordPress, MySQL, PHP, HTML/CSS, PayPal, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Google Analytics, Progressive Web App (PWA).

Undergraduate Research Assistant - Kwame Nkrumah​ University of Science and Technology (Kumasi, Ghana) (Sep 2016 – May 2018)

I worked on various research works(cyber security) and software development projects with Dr. Edward Danso Ansong.
• Conducted literature reviews
• Collected and analyzed data
• Assisted with the editing and preparation of manuscripts.
• Assisted with duties related to the production of academic journals.
• Prepared, maintained, and updated website content.
- Technologies Used: Python, C/C++, WordPress, PHP, HTML/CSS, JavaScript

Software Developer Intern - JimahTech Limited (Kumasi, Ghana) (Summers of 2016 and 2017)

• Increased revenue for 3 small business clients by 15% by using Search Engine Optimization and Google Analytics.
• Improved performance of existing client websites by 45% using caching and content delivery network to serve static files.
- Technologies Used: WordPress, PHP, MySQL, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Google Analytics,

Open Source Projects


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Bona Blog Mobile - An iOS and Android app for Bona Blog [an open source blogging website]

An Open-Source blogging iOS and Android app plaform like Medium and Real Python built with Dart and Flutter. It has a number of features needed for a standard blogging platform.

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Bona Blog Web - An Open-Source Web Blogging platform.

An Open-Source blogging platform like Medium and Real Python built with Python and Django. It has a number of features needed for a standard blogging platform.

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Instagram iOS UI - A clone of the Instagram iOS App using Flutter.

A clone of the Instagram iOS App using Flutter.This project is based on the goal of improving my Dart and Flutter skills.

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UI Design - Sample User Interfaces I designed using Figma

This project is based on the goal of improving my User Interface Design Skills as a developer. I wanted to improve my design skills and also contribute to the open source community at the same time and decided to build these designs.

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E-Shopper - A multi-lingual E-commerce webiste

I designed and developed a multi-lingual E-commerce website for my senior year project. It had a number of features needed for a standard e-commerce website.

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