About me
I’m a tech enthusiast specializing in web and mobile development, with a particular focus on web scraping. Always up for new challenges, I’m driven by growth, learning, and keeping things fresh. I constantly seek ways to evolve.
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Explore my recent projects
My projects span from simple websites to complex web applications and sophisticated web scraping solutions. Here are a few highlights.
Boots Tracker
A specialized search engine web application for football boot enthusiasts. Developed from scratch to deployment, it features:
- Advanced search functionality: Enables users to find ideal football boots based on multiple criteria including size, price range, and sole type.
- Optimized data collection: Built with Python, the system efficiently scrapes and normalizes product data from multiple retailers using custom web clients designed for performance.
- Self-hosted infrastructure: Implemented with Docker for consistent deployment and scalability, ensuring complete control over the entire stack.
- Automated updates: Regular synchronization systems ensure product availability and pricing information remains current across all tracked retailers.
AZ Tracker
A cross-platform mobile app that tracks Amazon product prices and notifies users of price drops. Developed from scratch to deployment, it features:
- Optimized performance and security: Built with a focus on stability, efficiency, and multiple security measures, including SSL pinning.
- Firebase integration: Includes Crashlytics, Cloud Messaging, and Authentication for reliability and engagement.
- Scalable backend: Developed in JavaScript, optimized to handle overloading, ensuring seamless performance even during peak usage.
- Advanced scraping engine: Combines a custom web scraper with official Amazon APIs integration, designed with careful consideration to create an efficient request client that maximizes resource utilization.
- Web showcase: A dedicated landing page to present the app.
- UI/UX refinement and implementation: Collaborated with a professional designer to enhance the design and used Figma to translate it into a fully functional app interface.
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Designed and implemented custom, efficient scraping solutions for monitoring limited stock of shoes and apparel, as well as developing bots, scripts, and browser extensions to automate the purchasing process. Skilled in debugging and reverse engineering mobile apps, e-commerce, and web applications, with expertise in bypassing security systems such as Cloudflare, PerimeterX, Datadome, and others.
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