Henrique Coura
Technical Architect at koodos labs (the creators of Shelf)
Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Top SchoolHenrique Coura is a Technical Architect with 11 years of experience who transitioned from Mechanical Engineering into software and now designs resilient, production-grade systems from Brazil. He has led technical teams and hybrid people/tech roles, owning hiring, planning, and cross-team negotiations while also shipping core infrastructure and backend services. His hands-on background spans Python, Go, Kubernetes-based SDN, browser orchestration and anti-bot tooling, and data pipelines into BigQuery, showing comfort across networking, infra and data domains. Henrique is an active open-source contributor to the widely used Scrapy project, where he improved download handlers and security-related console features to boost performance and flexibility. Colleagues know him for combining deep systems debugging with pragmatic product-focused delivery and for occasionally straddling leadership and individual-contributor duties. Based in Minas Gerais, he brings a mix of research curiosity and operational ownership shaped by international exchange experience during his engineering studies.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange Program Mechanical Engineering, Exchange Program Mechanical Engineering at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor's degree Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's degree Mechanical Engineering at CEFET-MGExchange Program Mechanical Engineering, Exchange Program Mechanical Engineering at Mississippi State University
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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scrapy
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Github Skills (15)
application-framework10
app-framework10
web-framework10
scrapy10
python10
webscraping10
testing9
crawler8
pandas6
xpath6
scrapy-splash6
firebase6
web-crawler6
amazon-s36
unique-identifier6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
scrapy/scrapy
Aug 2018 - Oct 2018
Scrapy, a fast high-level web crawling & scraping framework for Python.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 5 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Henrique primarily focused on enhancing the Scrapy framework's download handlers. They implemented lazy loading for download handlers, improving performance and flexibility. Additionally, the user made adjustments to telnet console settings, allowing for random password generation and authentication configuration. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the framework's core functionalities and user experience.
pythonscrapyscraping-frameworkhigh-levelweb-crawling
hcoura/wikipedia_scrapper
Jul 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 9 months
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