Prashant Sharma
Python Developer at Zyte (formerly Scrapinghub)
Delhi, India
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Top SchoolPrashant Sharma is a Python backend developer with 8 years' experience building scalable APIs and data pipelines, currently focused on web scraping at Zyte using Scrapy. He has strong Django/DRF expertise and a proven track record designing microservices, asynchronous producer-consumer systems, and GIS-enabled applications leveraging GeoDjango, GDAL and OSM data. An active open-source contributor, Prashant has contributed bug fixes and network/auth improvements to the widely used pip project and to tools like django-phone-verify and Mailman. He blogs about engineering lessons and open-source work, and brings a pragmatic emphasis on test coverage, maintainability and cross-team delivery. Based in Delhi, he combines product-minded backend engineering with hands-on data operations to turn messy web data into reliable, production-ready datasets.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
10th, General, 9.4 CGPA, 10th, General, 9.4 CGPA at Ring Midways Public School11th and 12th, Science, 92.3%, 11th and 12th, Science, 92.3% at Spring Meadows Public SchoolBachelor of Technology - BTech, Information Technology, 9.14 CGPA, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Information Technology, 9.14 CGPA at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
English, Hindi
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Github Skills (16)
packaging10
pip10
pytest10
python10
testing10
command-line9
command-line-interface9
json6
git6
djangorestframework-simplejwt6
authentication6
scrapy6
javascript6
django-rest-framework6
webscraping6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
pypa/pip
Mar 2020 - Jul 2020
The Python package installer
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 33 PRs, 193 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Prashant primarily contributed to bug fixes and refactoring within the `pip` package installer. They addressed issues related to tests, specifically fixing incorrect test behavior and adding compatibility for different system architectures. The user also focused on improving the codebase by removing redundant methods and updating comments, improving maintainability and clarity. Furthermore, the user implemented enhancements for network authentication and command options.
pythonpackage-installerpippackaginginstaller
gutsytechster/pip
Mar 2020 - Sep 2020
The Python package installer
Contributions:1 PR, 93 pushes, 25 branches in 6 months
installerpythonpython-packagepackage-installer
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