Jesús Losada
Senior Backend Developer at Ipglobal Tech Hub
A Coruña, Galicia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolJesús Losada is a Senior Backend Developer with 11 years of experience specializing in Python and production-grade backend systems, currently based in A Coruña, Spain. He has driven microservice and event-driven migrations, observability improvements with OpenTelemetry, and scalable data delivery for web-scraping and brand-protection products. A long-time Scrapy contributor, he has enhanced S3 storage ACLs and improved media pipeline documentation for a widely used open-source crawling framework. Comfortable across startups and larger teams, he pairs hands-on engineering with monitoring and automation expertise, and has a history of being the first hire on new data teams to establish delivery and monitoring practices.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science in Computer Science (5-year degree), Master of Science in Computer Science (5-year degree) at Universidade da Coruña
Spanish, Galician, English
Github Skills (12)
scrape10
scrapy10
webscraper10
webscraping10
python10
documentation10
data-scraping10
aws9
crawler9
application-framework9
app-framework9
web-framework9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
scrapy/scrapy
Jul 2016 - Jan 2018
Scrapy, a fast high-level web crawling & scraping framework for Python.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Documentation Specialist
Backend Developer & Documentation SpecialistContributions:16 commits, 5 PRs, 4 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Jesús primarily contributed to the Scrapy framework by implementing settings related to Amazon S3 storage and access control. Their work included adding a new setting for S3 ACL, modifying existing files to support the new setting, and documenting the functionality within the media pipeline documentation. Furthermore, the user addressed minor issues by fixing the default value for `IMAGES_EXPIRES`, correcting test settings, and resolving typos and broken links within documentation files.
pythonscrapyscraping-frameworkhigh-levelweb-crawling
jesuslosada/scrapy-xlsx
Apr 2019 - Dec 2022
XLSX exporter for Scrapy
Contributions:27 commits, 4 PRs, 19 pushes in 3 years 8 months
exporterxlsxscrapyexcel
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