Alexandre Rousseau
Software Engineer
Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Summary
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RockstarAlexandre 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.
11 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (23)
webscraper10
data-set10
scrape10
scraper10
webscraping10
data-model10
scrapy10
reqwest10
data-scraping10
user-data10
crawler10
rust10
screen-scraping10
website-development9
website-design9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
spider-rs/spider
Jan 2018 - Apr 2022
A web crawler and scraper for Rust
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions: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.
web-crawlerrustindexingfastestcrawler
madeindjs/Super-Markdown
Jun 2016 - Sep 2017
a Python library to export a complex Markdown file into a standalone HTML file.
Contributions:47 commits, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year 3 months
python-librarypythonexportmarkdown-filestandalone
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