Özcan Yarımdünya is a Senior Python Developer based in Istanbul with a decade of professional experience building and hardening production systems across telecom and marketplace domains. Currently at sahibinden.com, he brings deep hands-on Python expertise cultivated through prior roles at Huawei and GTech, working on both software development and backend engineering challenges. He contributes to open-source testing efforts—most notably improving the test suite and documentation for a popular Twitter frontend scraper—highlighting a practical focus on reliability and QA automation. Özcan combines pragmatic engineering with a knack for turning brittle scraping and data-handling code into well-tested, maintainable components. Trained in computer engineering at Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi, he pairs solid academic foundations with steady, production-proven delivery.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Licentiate degree Computer Engineering, Licentiate degree Computer Engineering at Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi
Scrape the Twitter Frontend API without authentication.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 4 days
Contributions summary:Özcan focused on implementing and enhancing the testing framework for the `twitter-scraper` project. They added comprehensive unit tests, specifically for testing specific functionalities related to scraping tweets, including aspects like handling user data and language configurations. They modified existing tests and also updated the README to include instructions on how to run the tests.
Contributions:84 commits, 113 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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Özcan Yarımdünya - Senior Python Developer at sahibinden.com