David Bengoa
Software Engineer at Google
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Bengoa is a versatile software engineer with 16 years of experience and a decade focused on JavaScript, currently engineering at Google from Zurich. He has built ambitious projects end-to-end — from an IoT contextual automation platform and a cloud-hosted browser to contributions at CERN and Mozilla — blending systems, backend Python, and rich front-end work. As a former co-founder and tech lead he solved hard scalability, security and integration challenges, including custom WebSocket proxies and a cloud browser that streams rendered pages. David is an active open-source contributor to prominent scraping tools like Portia and Splash, improving UI, security (MIME filtering and XSS fixes) and developer ergonomics. Comfortable leading teams or joining early-stage ventures, he’s seeking a technical co-founder role or senior developer position and is open to remote work or relocation. A practical tinkerer with production instincts, he often surfaces subtle UX and security issues others overlook.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Software Engineering at Universidad de MálagaBSc, Computer Software Engineering, BSc, Computer Software Engineering at Southampton Solent University
Spanish, English
Github Skills (15)
html10
emberjs10
javascript10
user-interface10
web-development10
front-end-development10
python10
webscraping10
css9
lua8
back-end-development8
apidoc7
api7
pyq7
pyqt7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
scrapinghub/portia
May 2015 - Mar 2016
Visual scraping for Scrapy
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:278 commits, 101 PRs, 6 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the front-end of the "Portia" project, a visual scraping tool. Their work involved enhancing the user interface and adding new features related to page actions. They implemented functionality to add and edit page actions, including features for scrolling, and fixed issues related to XSS vulnerabilities and incorrect handling of page content. Furthermore, they refactored and improved event handling mechanisms within the web document component.
scraperscrapingpythonscrapy
scrapinghub/splash
Jun 2015 - Jun 2016
Lightweight, scriptable browser as a service with an HTTP API
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:52 commits, 20 PRs, 90 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on enhancing the `splash` project's capabilities related to content type handling, and user interface improvements. They implemented content type filtering by introducing middleware to allow/deny requests based on MIME types, which enhances security. The user also worked on improving the user interface, including refactoring the UI's JavaScript and CSS, adding examples, and improving the display of response information. Furthermore, the user added a feature that allows the developer to set headers and also provided functionalities to display version info and image downloads.
with-serviceapibrowserscriptablejavascript
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