Vláďa Dušek
Senior Software Engineer at Apify
Brno, Southeast, Czechia
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Top SchoolVláďa Dušek is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience specializing in Python, currently building and maintaining open-source developer tooling at Apify, including Crawlee and the Apify SDK for Python. He has a strong background in web scraping, data engineering, and production-grade ETL orchestration from his tenure at Avast where he managed Airflow on Kubernetes and migrated workflows to GCP. Comfortable across CI/CD, tooling, and API clients, he blends hands-on library maintenance with operational experience running pipelines at scale. Vláďa also maintains a long-running Czech web app that visualizes open data on human progress, a project he began at Brno University of Technology and has continued evolving ever since.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Gymnázium LanškrounMaster's degree, Computer Networks, Master's degree, Computer Networks at Brno University of Technology
Czech, English
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Github Skills (102)
postgresql10
operation10
python10
airbyte10
data-warehouse10
command-line-interface10
databases10
data-ingestion10
etl10
automation10
duckdb10
crawler10
pip10
rest-api10
fingerprinting10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
vdusek/msz-historie-otazek
Apr 2022 - Jun 2022
VUT FIT MITAI MSZ - Historie pokládání otázek
Contributions:44 commits, 39 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
zekvutvut-fitfit
apify/crawlee-python
Jun 2024 - Apr 2025
Crawlee—A web scraping and browser automation library for Python to build reliable crawlers. Extract data for AI, LLMs, RAG, or GPTs. Download HTML, PDF, JPG, PNG, and other files from websites. Works with BeautifulSoup, Playwright, and raw HTTP. Both headful and headless mode. With proxy rotation.
Contributions:5 releases, 547 reviews, 403 PRs in 9 months
apifyautomationbeautifulsoupcrawlercrawling
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