Alexander Wu
General Manager at Shenzhen Aperture Technology Ltd.
Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Wu is a Shenzhen-based technology executive with 13 years of engineering and leadership experience, currently serving as General Manager of Shenzhen Aperture Technology. He began his career in test software and product engineering for optical and photonics companies, progressing to senior testing and product roles before transitioning to management and startup leadership. Hands-on with backend development, he contributes open-source Scrapy spiders for diverse sites (including LinkedIn and Amazon), evidencing practical expertise in web scraping and data extraction beyond his optics background. Comfortable bridging hardware-centric product engineering and software-driven solutions, he brings a rare combination of optical engineering rigor and applied software craftsmanship to product and operations.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Optical Information Science and Technology, Bachelor, Optical Information Science and Technology at South China University of Technology
Github Skills (5)
data-extraction10
scrapy10
html-parsing10
python10
webscraping10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
geekan/scrapy-examples
Jan 2014 - Aug 2018
Multifarious Scrapy examples. Spiders for alexa / amazon / douban / douyu / github / linkedin etc.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:258 commits, 8 PRs, 55 pushes in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Alexander's commits primarily focused on adding and modifying spiders within the Scrapy framework for web scraping purposes. The initial commits involved creating a naive spider example and adding a spider for the dmoz website. Further contributions included correcting item definitions and adding and updating spiders for extracting data from various websites such as LinkedIn and Douban. They demonstrate a solid understanding of web scraping using Scrapy, parsing HTML content, and extracting data.
douyupythonscrapyamazondouban
geekan/scrapy-general-spider
Jun 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:63 commits, 31 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
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