Eugene Lacuesta
Glendale Heights, Illinois, United States
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Eugene Lacuesta is a Licensed Electronics Engineer with over 11 years of hands-on experience driving New Product Introduction, product development, and process engineering across semiconductor and consumer electronics manufacturing. He has a proven record of delivering yield improvements and cost reductions through strategic process optimization, from SMT and PCBA to flip-chip integration, laser marking and wafer dicing. Comfortable leading cross-functional teams, Eugene pairs practical shop-floor expertise with strong documentation and ISO-aligned process control to align design intent with manufacturability. He also brings software-minded rigor to testing and automation, contributing to well-known open-source projects such as Scrapy and Scrapy-Playwright by improving backend request handling and test coverage. Based in Glendale Heights, IL, Eugene blends deep manufacturing know-how with a knack for pragmatic problem solving and continuous improvement that speeds product launches and stabilizes production.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Science in Electronics and Communications Engineering at Technological University of the Philippines
Japanese
Github Skills (18)
pytest10
python10
testing10
http10
webscraping10
headless-browser10
scrapy10
selector10
playwright10
lxml9
xpath9
xml8
screen-scraping8
scrape8
data-scraping8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
scrapy-plugins/scrapy-playwright
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:38 releases, 11 reviews, 171 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Eugene contributed to the core functionality of the Scrapy Playwright integration. They added features to handle browser selection and request interception. The user also implemented tests, including testing different browser types (Firefox and WebKit) and functionalities like page methods and user agent handling, while fixing existing testing code. The contributions focused on improving the integration's functionality and reliability through testing.
headless-browserpythonscrapypuppeteerpython-asyncio
scrapy/scrapy
Jun 2016 - Oct 2022
Scrapy, a fast high-level web crawling & scraping framework for Python.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:117 reviews, 543 commits, 287 PRs in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Eugene primarily contributed to the Scrapy web scraping framework's back-end functionality, specifically focusing on improving the handling of HTTP/2 and general request processing. Their work included handling relative sitemap URLs in robots.txt, preserving request classes when converting to/from dicts, and validating values for components order. The user also introduced a new feature by adding the HTTPPROXY_ENABLED setting.
pythonscrapyscraping-frameworkhigh-levelweb-crawling
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