Georgiy Zatserklianyi is a software engineer with a decade of experience, currently building scraping and data-extraction capabilities at Zyte in Budapest. He brings deep Python backend expertise and a strong focus on web scraping, having freelanced as a specialist in that domain for several years. Georgiy contributes to the flagship open-source Scrapy project, adding HTTP compression statistics, tests, and robustness fixes—work that demonstrates attention to both feature design and QA. With postgraduate study in computer software engineering and a master’s in system analysis, he blends research-level rigor with practical production delivery. He’s the kind of engineer who not only implements functionality but also improves observability and test coverage in widely used tooling.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute"
Scrapy, a fast high-level web crawling & scraping framework for Python.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & QA Engineer
Contributions:48 reviews, 10 commits, 17 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Georgiy primarily contributed to the `scrapy/scrapy` repository by adding features and tests related to HTTP compression, specifically focusing on `httpcompression/response_bytes` and `httpcompression/response_count`. They modified the `httpcompression` middleware to include stats tracking, incorporated tests to verify correct functionality, and added checks for different compression methods. Moreover, the user fixed output file overwrite with the `-O` command, and updated tests by adding the `COMPRESSION_ENABLED` setting.
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Georgiy Zatserklianyi - Software Engineer at Zyte (formerly Scrapinghub)