Renne Rocha
Senior Software Engineer at Canary Technologies
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolRenne Rocha is a senior software engineer and technical leader with 15 years of experience, specializing in Python, web scraping, and backend APIs built with Django, Flask and FastAPI. He has led teams and projects at companies like Zyte and Shippo, improving data acquisition pipelines and integrating carrier APIs, while also mentoring engineers and driving code quality. An active open-source maintainer and contributor, Renne helped release and mature tools like Spidermon and has contributed notable scraping and QA improvements to projects such as queridodiario and serenata-de-amor. He pairs strong engineering execution with pragmatic API design, testing discipline, and Docker/AWS deployment experience. Based in São Paulo, he regularly speaks at Python community events and organizes meetups, bringing both technical depth and community stewardship. A background in electrical engineering and early experience across varied stacks gives him a systems-oriented perspective that informs robust, maintainable solutions.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
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English, Spanish, Portuguese
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Github Skills (21)
data-pipelines10
pytest10
python10
testing10
pandas10
webscraping10
scrapy10
spider10
data-extraction10
data-pipeline10
test-automation10
data-science9
open-data9
machine-learning7
database-migration6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
okfn-brasil/querido-diario
May 2018 - Jan 2023
📰 Diários oficiais brasileiros acessíveis a todos | 📰 Brazilian government gazettes, accessible to everyone.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:146 reviews, 171 commits, 340 PRs in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Renne primarily contributed to the development of the `querido-diario` repository by creating and modifying spiders using the Scrapy framework. Their work involved establishing a base spider class for code reuse, implementing pipelines for data filtering, and integrating functionality to extract and process data from official Brazilian government gazettes. The user's contributions included implementing date-based filtering and adapting the spiders to accommodate different gazette formats and structures. They also fixed contracts and improved the structure of existing components of the project.
pythoncivic-techdata-sciencegazette-crawlerspider
okfn-brasil/serenata-de-amor
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
🕵 Artificial Intelligence for social control of public administration | **This repository does not receive frequent updates. Check out the README**
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:5 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Renne focused on improving the testing infrastructure for the project. They added new test cases and documentation for the `MonthlySubquotaLimitClassifier` and also made explicit tests for the `IrregularCompaniesClassifier`. These changes included updating fixture files, explaining how to add new tests, and correcting existing tests. Furthermore, the user modified the existing code and updated the subquota limits for car renting.
civic-techdata-scienceadministrationpoliticsartificial
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