Julien Khaleghy
CEO And Founder at SerpApi
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJulien Khaleghy is a seasoned founder and software leader with 14 years of experience building scalable web systems and developer-focused APIs from Austin, Texas. As CEO and Founder of SerpApi since 2017 he runs a production-grade search engine scraping and parsing API, blending product vision with hands-on engineering. His background spans multiple startups where he led technical teams, optimized performance (including up to 20x improvements) and transitioned monoliths to microservices using Ruby on Rails, Elixir, MongoDB and Postgres. Julien also contributes to open-source tooling—helping develop a Wayback Machine downloader that reliably archives sites with timestamped filtering and robust error handling. He pairs entrepreneurial rigor with technical depth, having founded and scaled media platforms and integrated dozens of third-party APIs for analytics and distribution.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Film/Cinema/Video Studies, Film/Cinema/Video Studies at Université Paris NanterreHigh School diploma - scientific option - with honours Science, High School diploma - scientific option - with honours Science at Institution Saint Dominique de NeuillyHigh School Science, High School Science at Institution Saint DominiqueEntrepreneurship Marketing and Management, Entrepreneurship Marketing and Management at EDC Paris Business School
English, French, Spanish, Persian
Github Skills (6)
file-handling10
webscraping10
ruby10
error-handling9
minitest9
command-line-tool9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
hartator/wayback-machine-downloader
Jul 2015 - Oct 2022
Download an entire website from the Wayback Machine.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 4 reviews, 254 commits in 7 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Julien primarily contributed to the development of a Ruby-based Wayback Machine downloader. Their work included implementing core functionalities like retrieving file lists from the Wayback Machine API and downloading website files. Key features added were the ability to filter downloads, handle timestamp-based versioning, and process files, showing a focus on building a robust website archiving tool. They also worked on error handling and improved the directory structure of the downloaded content.
wayback-machine
hartator/no-syntax-highlighting-syntax
Mar 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:36 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 16 days
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