Kevin Sahin
Advisor at ScrapingBee
Soustons, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
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Top SchoolKevin Sahin is a founder-turned-operator with 11 years of software experience who bootstrapped ScrapingBee from idea to $5M+ ARR and successfully exited to Oxylabs, then served a year as CEO before shifting into acquiring and operating B2B SaaS businesses. A former developer and author of the Java Web Scraping Handbook, he specializes in API, data, and developer tools and prefers founder-to-founder, no-broker deals in the $500K–$2M ARR range. Kevin combines hands-on engineering fluency with practical growth and M&A experience from multiple startups—PricingBot and ShopToList among them—bringing a pragmatic focus on scaling small teams and products. Based in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, he openly shares the messy realities of bootstrapping and exits, and is actively advising companies in the scraping and data tooling space.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Licence, Informatique, Licence, Informatique at Université Champollion AlbiBachelor's degree - Licence Pro, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree - Licence Pro, Computer Software Engineering at Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse IIIBarral
English, French
Stackoverflow
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8answers
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Github Skills (70)
spider10
crawler10
htmlunit10
webscraping10
phantomjs10
crawling10
scraper10
data-processing9
python9
geocoder9
java9
kotlin8
mongodb8
gocd8
stream7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ksahin/introWebScraping
Feb 2016 - Apr 2019
Code exemple for my blog posts
Contributions:23 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
captcha-breakingchrome-headlesshtmlunitjavaphantomjs
ksahin/javawebscrapinghandbook_code
Dec 2017 - Jul 2018
Contributions:10 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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