Shane Evans
CEO at Zyte
Cork, Ireland
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Top SchoolShane Evans is a seasoned technology entrepreneur and CEO with 15 years of experience building web data platforms and leading engineering teams from Cork, Ireland. As co-founder and CEO of Zyte he turns complex web scraping and extraction challenges into actionable insights for customers, drawing on deep hands-on expertise in core open-source projects like Scrapy and Portia. His career spans senior engineering and leadership roles at companies including mydeco and lastminute.com, combining product-minded strategy with low-level backend craftsmanship. Notably, he has contributed substantive backend refactors and extraction features to widely used scraping tools, reflecting a blend of systems thinking and pragmatic engineering. Educated in computer science at University College Cork and trained in leadership at IESE, he pairs technical depth with executive leadership to scale data-driven products.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Leadership for Growth, Leadership for Growth at IESE Business SchoolBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University College Cork
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Github Skills (26)
application-framework10
json10
python10
back-end-development10
app-framework10
webscraping10
crawling10
scrapy10
twisted10
html-parsing10
data-extraction10
crawler10
web-framework10
api-design9
restful-api9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
scrapy/scrapely
Jun 2011 - Mar 2015
A pure-python HTML screen-scraping library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 commits, 4 PRs, 4 pushes in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Shane contributed to the `scrapely` library by implementing features and fixing bugs related to HTML parsing and data extraction. They introduced the `tags_to_purge` option for customizing HTML sanitization and allowed training of the `Scraper` class with `HtmlPage` objects. Furthermore, the user made adjustments to the encoding handling and test suite to improve the library's functionality and stability. These changes involved modifying core components of the library, specifically focusing on HTML processing and data scraping capabilities.
pythonscreen-scrapingscrapingpython3pure-python
scrapinghub/portia
Nov 2013 - Sep 2014
Visual scraping for Scrapy
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:33 commits, 1 comment in 10 months
Contributions summary:Shane primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the project. Their work involved refactoring the server to use `twistd`, integrating a bot with a fetch endpoint, and adding extraction capabilities to the fetch API. Furthermore, they focused on integrating slybot functionality and implemented saving of specs. Additionally, the user added the project name to the API request path, and implemented listing, moving, and deleting of spiders.
scraperscrapingpythonscrapy
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