Richard
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorRichard 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.
17 years of coding experience
Github Skills (35)
browser-extension9
blocker9
command-line-utility9
firefox9
scrapy9
ublock-origin9
chromium8
javascript7
mypy7
webfaction7
python7
text-mining6
queue6
google-cloud6
priority-queue6
Programming languages (5)
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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