Artem Bugara
CEO & Co-Founder at NewsCatcher (YC S22)
United States
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Top SchoolArtem Bugara is a founder-led data engineer and CEO who has spent a decade turning academic training in econometrics and game theory into production-grade news data infrastructure. Co-founder of NewsCatcher (YC S22, TinySeed S21), he grew a side project into a remote team serving enterprise clients worldwide by focusing on rapid iteration and practical automation of web data collection. Previously a Lead Data Engineer at elseco, Artem combines hands-on Python/R data science roots with systems thinking to ship resilient APIs like newscatcherapi.com. Born in Donetsk and educated across Strasbourg, Durham and Toulouse, he blends analytical rigor with entrepreneurial grit and a persistent focus on launching fast.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
S22, S22 at Y CombinatorBachelor's degree 1st & 2nd years Economics & Statistics, Bachelor's degree 1st & 2nd years Economics & Statistics at University of StrasbourgMaster's degree Econometrics and Statistics, Master's degree Econometrics and Statistics at Toulouse School of EconomicsBachelor's degree 3rd year Economics Statistics Finance, Bachelor's degree 3rd year Economics Statistics Finance at Durham University Business School
French, English, Ukrainian
Github Skills (16)
rss10
google10
data-science9
python9
flask7
scrapy4
middleware3
content-analysis3
crawling3
selenium3
javascript2
media2
markdown1
api1
data-platform1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
kotartemiy/pygooglenews
Jun 2020 - Mar 2021
If Google News had a Python library
Contributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 8 months
pythonnewsgooglerssdata-science
kotartemiy/newscatcher
Feb 2020 - May 2020
Programmatically collect normalized news from (almost) any website.
Contributions:16 commits, 23 PRs, 13 pushes in 2 months
normalizedcollectpythonprogrammaticallynews
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