Richard Penman
Backend Engineer at Google
Oxford, England, Taiwan
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Penman is a Backend Engineer with 16 years of hands-on experience and a decade focused on web crawling and scraping, now building scalable APIs and data pipelines at Google Maps. He has a strong track record designing resilient ETL and orchestration systems—from running a scraping business that handled millions of pages to migrating hedge-fund pipelines to Airflow and adding data versioning and pipeline health checks. At LinkedIn he owned media core APIs and a cross-platform media metrics pipeline, demonstrating an ability to align backend systems with product metrics and client needs. Oxford-educated in computer science, he blends deep technical expertise with entrepreneurial experience managing a small engineering team for global clients. An understated strength is his expertise handling brittle, JavaScript-heavy sites and anti-bot measures, which informs robust data extraction and reliability practices.
16 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at University of OxfordKew High SchoolThe University of Melbourne
English, Esperanto, Korean, Chinese
Github Skills (75)
thunderbird9
client-library9
firefox9
transcription9
firefox-addon9
transcript9
scrapy9
ublock-origin9
chrome-extension9
scraper9
browser-extension9
chromium8
javascript8
python8
google-cloud-platform8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
akatrevorjay/browsercookie
Apr 2015 - Apr 2018
Contributions:23 commits in 3 years 1 month
greythane/web2py-estore
Sep 2009 - Sep 2009
Contributions:16 commits in 25 days
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