Andres Moreira
Sales Team Lead - Americas at Zyte
Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay
Summary
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Top SchoolAndres Moreira is a sales leader and former hacker with 17 years of technical and commercial experience, currently leading Zyte’s Americas sales organization from Montevideo. He blends deep Python and data-mining roots—contributions to prominent open-source projects like Scrapy and Hadoop tooling—with a track record of building and scaling client relationships and sales teams. At Zyte he has progressed from hands-on technical sales and project management to Enterprise Account Executive and Sales Team Lead, shaping strategy, coaching reps, and closing complex deals. He also co-founded a data-focused startup, bringing product-minded entrepreneurship to enterprise sales. This mix of backend engineering chops and commercial leadership enables him to speak credibly to technical buyers and translate complex data products into clear business value.
17 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Java Programmer, Computer Science, Java Programmer, Computer Science at Universitario Autónomo del SurFull Stack Web Developer Nanodegree, Computer Science, Full Stack Web Developer Nanodegree, Computer Science at UdacityComputer Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Science at Universidad de la República
Spanish, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (25)
application-framework10
back-end-development10
python10
webscraper10
scrape10
app-framework10
hadoop10
webscraping10
crawling10
scrapy10
data-scraping10
crawler10
web-framework10
backend10
command-line-interface9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
scrapy/scrapy
Aug 2008 - Aug 2012
Scrapy, a fast high-level web crawling & scraping framework for Python.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits in 4 years
Contributions summary:Andres primarily worked on improving the Scrapy framework's replay functionality. They modified the handling of downloaded responses, introducing a new signal and associated methods. Additionally, the user added features to update and replay crawls, enhancing the framework's ability to revisit previously downloaded pages. Furthermore, they implemented a rule engine to the framework.
pythonscrapyscraping-frameworkhigh-levelweb-crawling
klbostee/dumbo
May 2011 - Jan 2012
Python module that allows one to easily write and run Hadoop programs.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Andres primarily contributed to the backend logic of the Dumbo project, a Python module for Hadoop programming. Their work focused on refactoring and optimizing existing code, particularly in the streaming backend, and implementing changes to core utilities. They also addressed bugs related to how options were parsed and handled, ensuring backward compatibility in the process. Additionally, the user added features like default parameters to the Params class.
pythonsparkpython-moduleprogramshadoop
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