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Artur Marinho Gaspar
Verified Expert in Engineering
Python Developer
São Paulo - State of São Paulo, Brazil
Toptal member since April 20, 2021
Bio
Artur is an expert Python programmer with seven years of experience. He specializes in web scraping and back-end web development. He has built multiple web scraping solutions, including the use of multiple browser engines to handle advanced JavaScript where one project averaged over five million requests per day across 30 different regional versions of a website. Artur's domain expertise includes eCommerce and real estate.
Portfolio
Zinq Technologies Inc
Python, React, TypeScript, AI Agents, Data Modeling, Full-stack Development...
OpenCraft
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Python, Django, React, Docker, Kubernetes...
Software Habit Inc.
Python, JavaScript, Flask, APIs, Full-stack, Redshift...
Experience
- Scrapy - 7 years
- Python - 7 years
- Django ORM - 3 years
- Django - 3 years
- C - 2 years
- Flask - 2 years
- C++ - 1 year
- Qt - 1 year
Preferred Environment
Linux, Git, PyCharm, Qt Creator
The most amazing...
...project I developed was a web scraping solution for a website with an average of two million daily requests.
Work Experience
Python/React Full-stack Developer
2025 - PRESENT
Zinq Technologies Inc
- Developed new features and fixed bugs for a platform for managing real estate assets built with FastAPI and React.
- Designed and implemented role-based access control for the platform on top of FastAPI.
- Implemented static verification of authentication requirements on all endpoints.
- Implemented row-level security in the PostgreSQL database to prevent cross-tenant data leaks.
Technologies: Python, React, TypeScript, AI Agents, Data Modeling, Full-stack Development, Databases, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), PostgreSQL, SQL, FastAPI, Node.js
Developer
2023 - 2025
OpenCraft
- Developed features, plugins, and bug fixes for the Open edX LMS.
- Collaborated with the open source upstream Open edX project.
- Maintained, upgraded, and monitored Open edX deployments.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Python, Django, React, Docker, Kubernetes, Learning Management Systems (LMS), Terraform, Back-end, API Integration, OpenAI API, Artificial Intelligence (AI), OpenAI, TypeScript, Technical Leadership, Full-stack Development
Python Developer
2021 - 2024
Software Habit Inc.
- Developed a Flask application to manage and view data from YouTube creator reports.
- Implemented the generation of reports as PDF and Excel spreadsheets.
- Managed deployment of the application in Heroku.
- Designed and implemented processes to summarize and consolidate data in an Amazon Redshift database with around one billion rows.
- Designed and implemented a second version of the API to better fit data model changes and oversaw the corresponding front-end implementation.
- Built integrations with external services for data processing.
Technologies: Python, JavaScript, Flask, APIs, Full-stack, Redshift, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google APIs, YouTube API, Amazon RDS, SQL, PostgreSQL, Heroku, PDF, Microsoft Excel, API Integration, Back-end, TypeScript, Technical Leadership, Full-stack Development
Developer
2021 - 2022
Sky.One Solutions
- Collaborated in developing the back end of the next version of the main product, Auto.Sky, a solution to facilitate running Windows applications in cloud services (AWS and Oracle Cloud).
- Participated in tooling and software architecture decisions for the new version of the main product (Auto.Sky).
- Maintained and fixed bugs in the legacy version of the main product (Auto.Sky).
Technologies: Python, Django, Django REST Framework, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Oracle Cloud, HTML, Microservices, API Integration, Back-end, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Full-stack Development, Full-stack
Developer
2015 - 2021
Zyte (formerly ScrapingHub)
- Developed multiple web scraping solutions, including the use of multiple browser engines to handle advanced JavaScript. One project averaged 5+ million requests per day across 30 different regional versions of a website.
- Contributed to the Scrapy open-source project and related libraries with bug fixes and new features. (https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy).
- Participated in the elaboration and development of automated checking for web scraping data quality based on fixed rules and previously extracted data.
Technologies: Scrapy, SQLite, JavaScript, Web Scraping, Asynchronous I/O, Python, Puppeteer, Web Crawlers, CSS, HTML, Go
Developer
2014 - 2015
Precifica
- Developed web scraping solutions for multiple eCommerce websites.
- Delivered a solution based on Celery and RabbitMQ for post-processing data scraped from websites.
- Built HTTP APIs to be used across different internal projects with Flask.
Technologies: Python, Scrapy, Flask, Celery, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Web Development, Web Scraping, Asynchronous I/O, Web Crawlers, Amazon Web Services (AWS), SQL, HTML, Microservices, Back-end
Developer
2013 - 2014
Freelance
- Developed web scraping solutions for multiple websites related to real estate, including scraping information from downloaded PDFs.
- Built a web application and the corresponding back end for scheduling and managing the aforementioned solution.
- Integrated the Scrapy framework with browser engines like PhantomJS and Qt WebKit for scraping websites that relied on complex JavaScript code.
Technologies: Python, Scrapy, Django, Web Scraping, Asynchronous I/O, Web Crawlers, PDF Scraping, SQL
Developer
2013 - 2013
BetterBill
- Developed web scraping solutions for multiple telephony companies' websites, keeping a single data format for data extracted from all sites.
- Developed and optimized the performance of a Node.js server application providing an API, both HTTP and WebSocket, for a future mobile app.
- Collaborated on the migration of data and client applications from MySQL to MongoDB.
- Created a solution based on Celery for diverse long-running asynchronous tasks across the project.
Technologies: Python, Scrapy, Django ORM, Node.js, Celery, MongoDB, Asynchronous I/O, Web Scraping, Web Crawlers, WebSockets, SQL, HTML, Full-stack, Technical Leadership
Experience
Web Scraping Project for Large Marketplace Website
A web scraping solution for a marketplace website (that allows users to sell and buy items). I elaborated the architecture of periodic job scheduling, data storage both for data used by different parts of the process and for the final extracted data, developed the main part of the project, and investigated problems related to request capacity and banning. It averaged five million requests per day from 30 regional versions of the website.
Integration of QtWebKit Browser Engine with Scrapy Framework
https://github.com/ArturGaspar/scrapy-qtwebkitScrapy-QtWebKit integrates the QtWebKit browser engine with the Scrapy web scraping framework. It was developed to facilitate web scraping of websites where a browser engine is needed to execute JavaScript or perform other functions. It has a similar use case as Selenium but integrates better into Scrapy.
The released code is not production-quality for a standalone library, as it was extracted, with permission, from a solution developed for a client and refactored from that, but it works and I plan to continue developing it into a useful project.
The released code is not production-quality for a standalone library, as it was extracted, with permission, from a solution developed for a client and refactored from that, but it works and I plan to continue developing it into a useful project.
Education
2022 - 2025
Engineer's Degree in Computer Engineering
UFRGS - Porto Alegre, Brazil
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Django ORM, React, Node.js, Puppeteer, Google APIs, YouTube API, OpenAI API
Tools
Celery, RabbitMQ, Git, Microsoft Excel, Terraform
Languages
Python, JavaScript, C, SQL, CSS, HTML, TypeScript, C++, Go
Frameworks
Scrapy, Django, Flask, Qt, Django REST Framework
Platforms
Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Heroku, Docker, Kubernetes
Storage
PostgreSQL, Databases, MongoDB, SQLite, JSON, Oracle Cloud, Redshift
Paradigms
Microservices
Other
Web Scraping, Web Crawlers, Full-stack, Back-end, Full-stack Development, FastAPI, Web Development, PDF, Technical Leadership, Asynchronous I/O, WebSockets, PDF Scraping, APIs, Amazon RDS, Learning Management Systems (LMS), Engineering, API Integration, Artificial Intelligence (AI), OpenAI, AI Agents, Data Modeling
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