Alexandre Rousseau is a software engineer based in Lyon with 11 years of hands-on experience building reliable back-end systems. He favors clean code and clear logic, demonstrated by significant contributions to spider-rs/spider, a Rust web crawler where he implemented modular URL fetching, HTML parsing, link extraction, and deduplication. Comfortable integrating external crates and command-line tooling, he focuses on pragmatic, maintainable architectures for data-intensive tasks. Colleagues know him for thoughtful design choices and steady craftsmanship—plus a candid sense of priorities that keeps both code and life in balance.
Get web data for AI agents and LLMs - fast, efficient, and reliable with Rust
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:8 releases, 21 reviews, 62 commits in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Alexandre contributed significantly to the development of a web crawler and scraper in Rust. They implemented core functionalities, including fetching URLs, parsing HTML, and extracting links. The user structured the project with modularity in mind, creating a `website` module and a `page` module, and integrated external crates for HTTP requests and HTML parsing. Subsequent commits expanded functionality, including preventing duplicate URL checks and integrating command-line usage.
Code example of API on Rails 6 book https://github.com/madeindjs/api_on_rails
Contributions:68 commits, 14 PRs, 34 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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