Shevchenko Taras
Data Science Engineer
Vologda, Vologda, Russia
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Top SchoolShevchenko Taras is a Data Science Engineer and technical leader with nine years in software and a long career in engineering and IT management, currently advancing data science and scraping technologies at Zyte. He brings deep hands-on expertise in web scraping, reverse engineering and automation (Scrapy, Splash, Puppeteer, Selenium, Python, JS, Lua) combined with proven people and IT-ops leadership from his CIO role overseeing an 8-person IT team and 200+ users. Taras has built commercial engineering tools since the late 1990s (C++, VBA, AutoCAD) and transitioned into modern data-driven product work, blending low-level technical craft with strategic decision-making. Comfortable scaling distributed infrastructure and automating production workflows, he pairs technical execution with supplier negotiations, hiring and KPI-driven team development. Based in Vologda, Russia, he complements technical chops with formal training in engineering, management and software product management, and is known for turning complex reverse-engineering challenges into reliable, production-ready pipelines.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Инженер, Engineering, 5, Инженер, Engineering, 5 at Vologda Polytechnical Institute (Vologda State University)Software Product Management Specialization, Software Product Management Specialization at University of Alberta, Canada, CourseraManager, Business Administration and Management, 5, Manager, Business Administration and Management, 5 at Programme on Training Managers and Executives for the Enterprises of National Economy of the RF
English
Github Skills (34)
plugin10
scrapy10
crawler10
http-api9
proxy9
api9
scrapinghub9
scriptable8
python-client8
entrypoint8
scraper8
testing7
crawling7
page-object7
job-runner7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
PyExplorer/articles_to_scrape
Jul 2024 - Jul 2024
Contributions:49 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
PyExplorer/coursepro
Jul 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:4 PRs, 4 pushes, 3 branches in 6 months
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