William Saballos Tools/Pipelines Technical Artist

Tech Art Projects

Kana Slicer

This game allows you to practice identifying Katakana and Hiragana Japanese characters with audio and visual cues
Designed, developed, and self-launched as a solo developer — achieved ~50 purchases on the Meta Quest store
Available on Meta Quest (opens in a new tab)

Houdini Remote Render Tracking Tool

Houdini Python script that sends render data to a server on specific render events
Server that stores information received from Houdini in a database and blob storage
Frontend website that retrieves data to review renders from a web app

3D Demo Reel

Houdini dynamics
Character Design

Unreal Engine VR Prototype for Magic the Gathering (WIP)

Gets cards associated from a small Python server. The player card names are stored in a database after being scanned by an OCR script.
Uses Unreal Engine Blueprints to fetch card data from a Magic the Gatehring API, then applies image from API to a dynamic material.
Displays card description from selected card to an Unreal Engine Widget.

Three.js Interactive Scene

Animation created with a motion capture suit
Rig created in Blender with ARP
Model created in Blender

Web Projects

F5.com Global Mega Nav

F5 · Next.js, Sanity, React, TypeScript

Owned the global mega nav and footer for F5.com (opens in a new tab) and F5 Labs (opens in a new tab) end to end, from Sanity content models to the front end
A single dataset drives both the desktop mega menu and the mobile experience, with nav items supporting layouts from simple links to multi-region dropdowns
Built field- and document-level Sanity validation that blocks authors from saving nav configurations that would break the layout

Aspen Mesh Service Mesh Visualizations

F5 · React, TypeScript, Redux, D3.js, GraphQL

Built complex data visualizations of Kubernetes clusters and Istio sidecar configurations for Aspen Mesh, an F5 incubation product
Helped migrate client-side communication from gRPC to GraphQL
Watch the full Aspen Mesh demo (opens in a new tab)

Microsoft Career Coach

Microsoft · React, TypeScript, Teams SDK, LinkedIn APIs

Launched Career Coach, a Microsoft Teams app powered by LinkedIn, across all Teams clients
Migrated all class-based components to functional components
Announcement on the Microsoft Education Blog (opens in a new tab)

azure.microsoft.com

Microsoft · C#, ASP.NET, Razor

Built and shipped new product experiences for azure.microsoft.com (opens in a new tab), a globally localized site serving millions of users per month
Shipped on a daily release cadence, reviewing PRs and maintaining build health across a 15-engineer team
Example: the Azure PlayFab product page (opens in a new tab) (archived June 2020)