: Senior Web Scraping & Anti-Bot Bypass Engineer
: Python (primary), JavaScript/Node.js, Go, SQL, Bash; proficient with Scrapy, Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium, requests/httpx, BeautifulSoup, lxml
: 7+ years in web data extraction and automation, with 4+ years focused specifically on anti-bot evasion and large-scale crawling infrastructure
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Built a distributed scraping platform (Python + Kubernetes) harvesting ~50M product listings/month from major e-commerce sites, with rotating residential proxy pools and adaptive rate limiting
Developed a Playwright-based bypass layer defeating Cloudflare Turnstile, Akamai Bot Manager, and PerimeterX on protected endpoints, maintaining >95% success rates
Reverse-engineered JavaScript challenge and fingerprinting scripts (canvas/WebGL/AudioContext) to generate consistent browser fingerprints
Created a headless-browser farm with TLS/JA3 fingerprint spoofing and HTTP/2 header ordering to evade detection
Delivered a real-time price-intelligence pipeline (Kafka + Postgres) for a market-research client, with automated CAPTCHA-solving integration and retry/backoff orchestration
: Full-time; open to contract or permanent roles; remote-friendly (UTC+1), flexible overlap with US hours
: Strong focus on ethical/legal compliance (robots.txt, ToS review, GDPR); experienced with proxy vendor management (residential, mobile, datacenter); skilled in observability for scrapers (Prometheus/Grafana); comfortable documenting bypass techniques and mentoring junior engineers; continuously updating methods as anti-bot vendors evolve
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