Jakob De Maeyer
Data And Product Engineer
Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolJakob De Maeyer is a freelance data and product engineer based in Münster with 11 years of experience turning messy, heterogeneous data into practical products like APIs, web apps, and automated reports. Trained as a physicist, he combines strong algorithmic thinking with pragmatic engineering—favoring simple, automatable solutions implemented primarily in Python. His work spans building data collection platforms and ETL pipelines for startups and retailers, leading logistics and ERP integrations, and running Bright Sky, an open weather API that now serves over a million daily requests. He has contributed backend fixes and tests to the well-known Scrapy project, reflecting solid open-source and QA chops. Outside work he’s a passionate beach ultimate player, a detail that hints at his teamwork and endurance on long data problems.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Göttingen
Stackoverflow
81reputation
939reached
3answers
0questions
Github Skills (13)
unit-testing10
scrapy10
python10
testing10
python-web8
web-framework8
app-framework8
scrape8
crawler8
webscraper8
webscraping8
scrapinghub6
scrapy-pipeline6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
scrapy/scrapy
Apr 2015 - Feb 2016
Scrapy, a fast high-level web crawling & scraping framework for Python.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:29 commits, 21 PRs, 228 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Jakob primarily contributed to improving the Scrapy framework's backend logic and associated testing. The commits focused on fixing issues within the RedirectMiddleware, including handling of HTTP status codes and request meta handling. They also worked on test-related changes, such as fixing test cases and introducing a full dictionary interface for BaseSettings.
pythonscrapyscraping-frameworkhigh-levelweb-crawling
jdemaeyer/spoqify
Feb 2022 - Mar 2022
Spotify playlist anonymizer.
Contributions:61 commits, 1 PR, 62 pushes in 25 days
anonymizerpersonalizationspotifyanonymizationplaylist
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