Kevin Zúñiga
Embedded Software Engineer at RidgeRun
Alajuela Province, Costa Rica
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Zúñiga is an Embedded Software Engineer with 12 years of experience focused on SOC design, embedded systems, software architecture, and applied machine learning. Based in Alajuela, Costa Rica, he combines hands-on firmware and back-end development—evidenced by his work expanding a popular Facebook scraper to handle images, pagination, groups, and login—with advanced studies at Georgia Tech. A fast learner and clear communicator, he excels at turning ambiguous requirements into reliable, maintainable systems while thriving in collaborative teams. Native Spanish speaker with advanced English, he blends critical thinking and practical problem solving to deliver results and continually pursue new technical challenges.
12 years of coding experience
Licenciatura, Ingeniería en Computadores, Licenciatura, Ingeniería en Computadores at Tecnológico de Costa RicaMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (12)
scrape10
scraper10
scrapy10
python10
webscraping10
webscraper10
facebook10
data-scraping10
screen-scraping10
regex9
html9
regular-expression9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kevinzg/facebook-scraper
Mar 2019 - Apr 2021
Scrape Facebook public pages without an API key
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 259 commits, 64 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to the core functionality of the Facebook scraper, starting with the initial implementation of the scraper and expanding its capabilities. They added features like image extraction and pagination to crawl through multiple pages. Furthermore, they fixed bugs, improved the code's style, and added features like support for groups and user login functionality.
apifacebook-scraperscrapescrape-facebookfacebook-scraping
kevinzg/visimerge
Feb 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:106 commits, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
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