Miguel Recinos
IT Technician
California, United States
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Top SchoolMiguel Recinos is a versatile software engineer and IT technician with a decade of hands-on experience supporting businesses and building open-source software, particularly in Rust and Python. Based in California, he blends low-level computing passion—hardware, Linux servers, and networking—with pragmatic office IT responsibilities, including designing redundancy for internet, power, and secure backups. An active contributor to Instaloader, he improved backend parsing, unicode handling, and typing for a widely used Instagram scraping tool, showing attention to robustness and metadata fidelity. A quick self-learner and polyglot (heritage Spanish speaker with JLPT N2 Japanese), he has led telematics work for a solar car project and helped refound a college CS club, demonstrating both technical leadership and community drive.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering at San José State UniversityUniversity of the PacificComputer Science, Computer Science at San Joaquin Delta CollegeMiscellaneous Community Colleges
English, Japanese, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (6)
download-manager10
instagram10
python10
regex9
type-checking9
typehinting9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
instaloader/instaloader
Mar 2022 - Jul 2022
Download pictures (or videos) along with their captions and other metadata from Instagram.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 7 commits, 22 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Miguel primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the Instaloader project by modifying the `structures.py` and `instaloader.py` files. Their contributions included adding unicode normalization for captions, restricting mention regex to ASCII, and improving typing syntax. They implemented new features related to profile biographies, story item captions and provided improvements to existing features.
pythoninstagram-clientvideosinstagram-scraperinstagram-metadata
MiguelX413/ogre
Feb 2023 - May 2024
A systems programming language with higher-level theoretical Computer Science concepts.
Contributions:2 PRs, 155 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 2 months
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