Rafael Capucho
Senior Python Developer at Zyte
São Paulo, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolRafael Capucho is a Senior Python Developer with over 16 years in software engineering and more than a decade of hands-on experience delivering distributed systems, web crawlers, and Big Data infrastructure. He has led teams and projects—building resilient clusters with Apache Mesos, designing proprietary crawling platforms on Python/Redis/Cassandra, and deploying large-scale device management and cloud services. Comfortable from low-level C/C++ to modern web stacks and databases like Cassandra and MongoDB, he pairs deep technical breadth (Django/Tornado, Docker, Linux, Celery, Ansible) with strategic consulting for architecture and operations. A seasoned presenter and teacher, he regularly gives keynotes across Brazil and has taught free university courses on Python and open-source tools. Notably, he combines AI curiosity with production engineering, having implemented neural networks and search/optimization algorithms alongside scalable crawling and ETL systems.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Unifesp - Universidade Federal de São Paulo
Portuguese, English, Italian, Spanish
Stackoverflow
461reputation
34kreached
3answers
8questions
Github Skills (200)
python10
scrapy10
crawler10
scrapinghub10
flask10
crawling10
eagle10
scraper10
wsgi9
tornado9
rest9
api9
swagger-ui9
pyramid9
webapp9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
rafaelcapucho/scrapy-eagle
Jun 2016 - Oct 2016
Scrapy Eagle is a tool that allow us to run any Scrapy based project in a distributed fashion and monitor how it is going on and how many resources it is consuming on each server.
Contributions:253 commits, 16 PRs, 212 pushes in 4 months
monitorpythonscrapyeaglefashion
rafaelcapucho/rafaelcapucho.github.io
Aug 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:81 pushes, 3 branches in 4 months
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