Marc Hernández
Python Developer
Palma, Balearic Islands, Spain
Summary
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RockstarMarc Hernández is a Python developer with 9 years of experience specializing in web data extraction and backend engineering, currently at Belvo-finance and formerly at Scrapinghub and APSL. He contributes to prominent open-source projects like Scrapy and dateparser, where he improves code quality, documentation, and locale support—work that has influenced widely used web-scraping tooling. Based in Palma, Spain, Marc blends meticulous technical writing with pragmatic code fixes, from docstring cleanups to utilities that translate curl commands into Scrapy requests. He’s known for focusing on maintainability and usability, quietly improving developer experience across libraries relied on by the scraping community.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (22)
python10
scrapy10
clarity10
documentation10
code-readability10
api-design9
testing9
integrations9
webscraping9
api9
web-framework8
crawler8
localization8
python-web8
scrape8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
scrapinghub/dateparser
Sep 2019 - Oct 2022
python parser for human readable dates
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Technical Writer
Back-end Developer & Technical WriterContributions:5 releases, 169 reviews, 138 commits in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Marc primarily contributed to the project by addressing documentation issues and improving code clarity. They fixed docstrings and other documentation-related errors across multiple files, including Python modules and documentation files. The user also simplified expressions within the code and added support for new locales, demonstrating proficiency in maintaining and extending the project's functionality. Furthermore, the user was involved in the release of a new version.
pythonpython-parserreadablehuman-readabledates
scrapy/scrapy
Mar 2019 - Mar 2021
Scrapy, a fast high-level web crawling & scraping framework for Python.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 25 commits, 30 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Marc primarily contributed to the Scrapy framework by fixing issues and improving existing code. Their work includes addressing numeration problems in documentation, creating a utility to convert curl commands to Scrapy request kwargs, and fixing JSONRequest naming. They also addressed various code style issues, typos, and whitespace errors, demonstrating a focus on code quality and maintainability. These commits improve the framework's usability and consistency.
pythonscrapyscraping-frameworkhigh-levelweb-crawling
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