Willian Massami Watanabe

Professor

UTFPR - Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná•  October 2012 - Present

Software Engineering and Web Development professor, teaching: Web standards, JavaScript fullstack (React.js/REDUX and Express.js) and Web engineering practices (TDD - Test-Driven Development, BDD - Behavior-Driven Development, CI - Continuous Integration and CD - Continuous Delivery). Research topics involve Web accessibility (WCAG 2.0 and WAI-ARIA) and application of Machine Learning for solving Software Engineering problems. Open-Source contributor for the Reactstrap project, a React.js Widget library.

Software Engineer

Yahoo!•  April 2011 - October 2012

Software Engineer at Yahoo!, working specifically on two applications: Meme (http://meme.yahoo.com) and Profile (http://profile.yahoo.com). Working with PHP, Python, JavaScript, Web Standards, RESTFul, Test Automation, Test-Driven Design, Continuous Delivery, Scrum and eXtreme Programming.

IT Analyst

Guenka•  January 2006 - January 2008

Part of the team responsible by the remote marketing software implementation, through the use of mobile devices, an optimized communication protocol (due to limitations of the mobile platform) and databases server applications. Collaborated in the development of a server applications that allowed other applications remote update through the use of XML-RPC.

ICMC-USP

Computer Science, PhD•  January 2010 - September 2014

As a PhD candidate, my research is focused in automatically evaluating accessibility in web applications. The main goal of this work is to identify automatic strategies for evaluating ARIA - Accessible Rich Internet Applications navigation scenarios, to contribute to the Web Engineering process.

ICMC-USP

Computer Science, MS•  January 2008 - June 2010

Master of Sciences degree in the area of HCI - Human-Computer Interaction, with focus in web accessibility. As a Computer Scientist, my goal was to develop assistive technologies that made use of Natural-Language Processing techniques to improve the accessibility of web applications to low-literacy users. This work was founded by FAPESP and Microsoft Research.