About Eugen
A Senior Python Engineer specializing in **web scraping and AI automation**, with strong experience building scalable data extraction systems and intelligent automation tools. Skilled in Scrapy, Selenium, Playwright, and API integration, with expertise in handling complex websites and anti-bot mechanisms. Proven ability to develop end-to-end data pipelines and AI-driven solutions that improve efficiency and reduce manual work.
English
Native or bilingual
Remote only
Primarily works remotely
Experience
- Acentra HealthSoftware EngineerJanuary 2021 - September 2024 (3 years and 8 months)
- Architected and delivered a large enterprise healthcare ERP system using Python (Django, FastAPI), React.js, and PostgreSQL, supporting high availability, complex workflows, and large scale inventory operations.
- Built distributed microservices in Python, Django REST Framework, FastAPI, and Celery orchestrated with Redis/Kafka for asynchronous workflows and event-driven communication.
- Designed secure RESTful and GraphQL APIs, using FastAPI + Swagger/OpenAPI, JWT/OAuth2, API Gateway routing, and service mesh paterns.
- Migrated legacy .NET services to a Python microservices platform with zero downtime, improving performance and reducing operational costs by 40%.
- Implemented real-time features using WebSockets, Django Channels, and Redis pub/sub, enabling immediate notifications, dashboards, and system-wide event propagation.
- Built scalable data services with SQLAlchemy, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Redis, and MongoDB, optimizing query performance and introducing advanced indexing strategies.
- Designed large-scale automation frameworks using Python, enabling scheduled system tasks, data ingestion, and infrastructure operations across cloud environments.
- Developed distributed web scraping services using Scrapy and Selenium to collect, normalize, and analyze data across multiple healthcare systems and vendor platforms.
- Built resilient scraping systems with proxy rotation, browser fingerprint control, and asynchronous pipelines, achieving 90% reduction in scraping failures.
- Implemented DevOps pipelines in Jenkins, GitHub Actions, integrating SonarQube, Docker, unit testing (pytest, unitest), and automated deployments to Kubernetes clusters.
- Mentored engineers on Python best practices, API architecture, high-performance data access, and cloud-native systems, improving code quality and consistency by over 50%.
- Beyond KeyFull Stack DeveloperApril 2017 - December 2020 (3 years and 8 months)
- Modernized and migrated legacy enterprise applications to Node.js and TypeScript, reducing technical debt and significantly improving API performance and maintainability.
- Implemented robust authentication and authorization using JWT, OAuth2, Auth0, and role based access control, ensuring compliance with strict data-privacy standards.
- Designed and developed highly scalable RESTful and GraphQL APIs using Express, NestJS, and Apollo Server, improving data accessibility and boosting front-end integration efficiency.
- Built production-grade microservices using Node.js, TypeScript, and Redis for caching, reducing response latency by over 35% for high-traffic workloads.
- Created responsive, high-performance UI components with React, Next.js, Redux Toolkit, and React Query, improving user engagement and reducing load times through code-spliting and SSR/ISR strategies.
- Enhanced real-time communication using WebSockets, Socket.IO, Twilio SMS, and WebRTC, enabling live chat, alerts, and video features across platforms.
- Architected serverless workloads using AWS Lambda, improving scalability while reducing operational overhead.
- Utilized GCP BigQuery, Dataflow, and Pub/Sub for large-scale analytics pipelines that generated actionable business insights from billions of records.
- Managed high-throughput databases including MongoDB Atlas, DynamoDB, and PostgreSQL, ensuring high availability with sharding, replicas, and automated failover.
- Implemented Elasticsearch for full-text search and log analytics, improving data retrieval speed and enabling deep observability.
- Containerized all backend services using Docker and orchestrated deployments with Kubernetes, enabling blue/green deployments and auto-scaling with near-zero downtime.
- BelatrixSoftware EngineerJune 2014 - February 2017 (2 years and 8 months)
- Developed financial management and analytics platforms using Python, Django, VB.NET, and microservices architecture, improving transaction processing by 45%.
- Built scalable WCF REST services and gradually replaced them with Python REST services (Flask/Django REST Framework) for more flexible and secure data exchange.
- Engineered optimized data pipelines using Python, SQL Server, Oracle, advanced indexing, partitioning, and performance tuning, reducing data retrieval time by 30%.
- Designed interactive financial dashboards using Angular, Django REST, and Power BI, with real time updates powered by WebSockets.
- Built multi-layered web applications using Django, Nginx, Gunicorn, enabling secure, scalable deployments.
- Engineered automated monitoring scripts for APIs, authentication services, and system health, improving reliability and eliminating manual checks.
- Automated ETL workflows using Python, Airflow, AWS Glue, and custom data transformation scripts for e-commerce datasets.
- Integrated Salesforce and third-party APIs using Python, enabling real-time CRM synchronization.
- Improved performance of legacy apps by implementing caching (Redis), CDN acceleration, and async task processing with Celery.
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Education
- Bachelor of Computer ScienceMoldova State University|2014Bachelor of Computer Science