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$20 USD / hour
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toronto, canada
$20 USD / hour
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Chris S.

@ChrisS98

4.9 (9 reviews)
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$20 USD / hour
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toronto, canada
$20 USD / hour
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Web Scraping, Data Management, Writing and Python Development Expert

I am an experienced data engineer, with four years experience building and maintaining data streams, via web scraping, data manipulation, and storage. In addition to this collection experience, I also have been in charge of documentation and creation of content surrounding various types of data, ranging from financial to societal, creating detailed explanatory text for financial and economic databases and the building of a variety of easy to use and understand pages summarising a range of data types. Through my work I've gained extensive experience in the following languages, frameworks and systems: - Python app development - Various Javascript frameworks - SQL for data storage, analysis and optimisation - Web scraping, crawling and automated data extraction - Data ETL - Testing and QA on all aspects of scripts and web projects

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5.0
$355.00 CAD
Chris writes very clean and efficient code. He can deal with complex technical problems.
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Web Scraping
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@ryanshirley
7 years ago
5.0
$311.00 USD
Chris is very knowledgeable and adept at scraping data on a variety of forums.
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@hrahman2
7 years ago
5.0
$500.00 AUD
Chris delivered the required scraping code exactly to specification, and the code was of a very high quality. I would definitely work with Chris again, and would recommend him to anyone needing website scraping code.
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@thomasacolin
7 years ago
5.0
$250.00 CAD
An experienced programmer who delivers high quality work. Met all expectations on my web scraping project. Thanks, Chris!
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Linux
Web Scraping
Software Architecture
Mac OS
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@ryanshirley
7 years ago
5.0
$55.00 USD
Great freelancer with excellent communication skills and understanding of the specified task. Thanks!
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@blueaugust
7 years ago

Experience

Head of Open Data

Quandl
Mar 2013 - Mar 2017 (4 years)
• Improve data coverage by: extracting data via API or web scraping, transforming into loadable format and pushing to Quandl using Python and Ruby • Build comprehensive documentation and technical explanations of a variety of finance, economic and societal databases • Asses usage patterns and create reports on end user analytics data using SQL and Python • Build and maintain a variety of complex data systems, integrating web scraping, data manipulation and code maintenance.

Education

Master of Arts, Political Science

University of Toronto, Canada 2017
(Less than a year)

Honours Bachelor of Science, Physics and Philosophy

University of Toronto, Canada 2008 - 2012
(4 years)

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