Andrey Merkurev
Senior Software Engineer at uCrawler
Moscow, Moscow City, Russia
Summary
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SeniorAndrey Merkurev is a Senior Software Engineer with 9 years of experience building high-throughput backend systems and integrations, currently leading architecture and backend development at uCrawler. He blends deep Python expertise with production experience in C++ and Golang, having designed an internal encrypted protocol capable of 2 million messages per second and delivered over 100 system integrations at ALPHAOPEN. A pragmatic architect and early-stage operator, he co-founded and built a service from scratch—handling business analysis, design, and implementation with Django, Elasticsearch and FastText. Passionate about open source and data-driven tooling, he frequently develops scrapers, crawlers and bespoke libraries that turn complex protocols into reliable, maintainable products.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (76)
docker-machine10
django-framework10
readability10
django-blog10
docker-registry10
docker-container10
dockerfile10
crawler10
javascript10
chatgpt10
webscraper10
django10
gunicorn10
docker-compose10
headless-browser10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
amerkurev/scrapper
Mar 2023 - Dec 2025
Web scraper with a simple REST API living in Docker and using a Headless browser and Readability.js for parsing.
Contributions:16 releases, 2 reviews, 10 PRs in 2 years 10 months
dockerheadless-browserparsingrestrest-api
amerkurev/artlang
Apr 2018 - Mar 2024
Contributions:30 pushes in 6 years
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