Students building apps for Colombia’s top tech companies
As part of their first-year curriculum, Holberton Colombia Cohort 10 students will work on their final projects with Colombia’s top tech companies under the mentorship of their leading CTOs and engineering managers. Participating companies include Colombia’s unicorn Rappi, robot delivery company Kiwi, learning platform Skillshare, IoT platform Ubidots, and remote talent marketplace Torre. Each company is coming to the program with a real-world product request to serve their business needs. Students will build the product or feature on top of each company’s tech stack.
“There are two objectives for the company capstone projects. One is to let leading employers access the best technical talent for their recruiting needs. The second objective is that these multi-week, hands-on projects will give Cohort 10 programmers real-world projects completed for top-tier companies to include in their portfolios,” said Jessica Mercedes, Country Manager of Holberton Colombia.
The projects include developing the following:
- Crowdlending for Rappi delivery couriers so that they can finance the purchase of a motorcycle
- An algorithm to detect the distance of moving objects for Kiwi’s autonomous vehicles while using only one camera
- A picture-based class recommendation engine for Skillshare
- A computer vision solution to maintain COVID-safe distances among factory workers using the Ubidots platform
- A web service that centralizes job opportunities and applicants across many job boards for Torre.
Students will work for six weeks under the leadership of each company’s technical management and will be expected to deliver on the same level of technical excellency as their full-time employees. Each project will be presented during the demo day taking place on June 19th. The event will be live-streamed on Facebook, so be sure to follow our page to watch!