Tom Russell
Web Scraping Engineer at Wyndlabs
New York, United States
Summary
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SeniorTom Russell is a Web Scraping Engineer with 11 years of hands-on software development experience, based in New York. He specializes in building resilient, large-scale scrapers and extraction pipelines using JavaScript/Node (Crawlee, Playwright), Python, and TypeScript, and designs stealthy fingerprinting and rotating-proxy strategies to avoid detection. At Seerist he combined Crawlee/Playwright with AWS Batch, Step Functions and CDK-backed infrastructure to operationalize parser registries and RSS ingestion at scale, and now builds custom Python scrapers and tools at Wyndlabs. An active contributor to open-source testing efforts, he improved test frameworks and coverage for the widely used dateparser project, bringing a disciplined given-when-then testing style to brittle parsing code. Practical, systems-minded, and detail-focused, he pairs low-level scraping techniques with cloud orchestration to turn noisy web data into reliable datasets.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (6)
unit-testing10
date-parsing10
unit-test10
python10
test-automation10
testing10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
scrapinghub/dateparser
Feb 2015 - Apr 2015
python parser for human readable dates
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 76 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Tom primarily focused on refactoring and improving the testing infrastructure within the `dateparser` repository. Their commits involved significant changes to the testing framework, including adopting a "given-when-then" approach for test organization and introducing new test cases. The user also addressed issues related to test coverage and improved the overall reliability of the automated tests. These changes enhanced the project's testing capabilities, ensuring the accuracy and reliability of the date parsing functionalities.
pythonpython-parserreadablehuman-readabledates
tsrdatatech/dateparser
Feb 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
pythonpython-parserreadablehuman-readabledates
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