Chris Caruso
Senior Application Developer
Tacoma, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorChris Caruso is a Senior Application Developer with 13 years of professional experience building and maintaining robust systems across startups, corporate, and military environments from Tacoma, WA. He excels at pragmatic, creative problem solving—preferring roles that let him independently assess challenges and implement unconventional but effective solutions. His background spans systems and database administration, robotics programming, and modern web development, currently focusing on automated web data collection with Ruby on Rails at the Linguistic Data Consortium. Chris contributes to open-source tooling for media extraction, adding and improving extractors in the widely used yt-dlp project, reflecting hands-on Python backend skills alongside his systems expertise. He brings a disciplined, deadline-driven approach learned from defense and production deployments, paired with a taste for flexible automation that scales.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (8)
video-download10
extraction10
yt-dlp10
extractor10
ytdl10
python10
webscraping9
regex8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
yt-dlp/yt-dlp
Apr 2022 - Aug 2024
A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 10 PRs, 4 comments in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the `yt-dlp` repository by adding support for new extractors and updating existing ones to accommodate changes in video platforms. Their work involved modifying Python code to handle URL parsing, extracting video metadata, and downloading media from various websites. The contributions include implementing a new extractor for the Lumni platform and improving error messages and functionality for existing extractors like JWPlatform, Youku, and CBC.
pythonvideo-downloaderfixesyoutube-dlcsponsorblock
carusocr/bulltwitter
Jul 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:35 commits, 20 PRs, 29 pushes in 1 year 1 month
browserjavascriptspotmaptwitter
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