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:: SKILLS & EXPERTISE ::
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Systems Architect
Designing and building scalable, maintainable software architectures with a focus on data-driven systems. Specializing in connecting disparate data sources, creating robust APIs, and implementing efficient data pipelines. Expert in making architectural decisions that balance performance, maintainability, and business requirements. Strong focus on automation, monitoring, and creating systems that can scale both technically and organizationally.
Technical Skills

Web Scraping

Expert in extracting data from complex websites, handling dynamic content, bypassing anti-bot systems, managing proxies and rotating IPs, implementing robust error handling and retry logic, and recognizing patterns in unstructured data to ensure reliable data collection at scale.

API Development

Designing and building scalable REST and GraphQL APIs with comprehensive documentation, implementing authentication and authorization systems, rate limiting, caching strategies, and versioning. Creating developer-friendly interfaces that are both performant and maintainable.

Data Engineering

Building ETL pipelines for processing large datasets, designing efficient database schemas, implementing data normalization and validation, managing queue systems for asynchronous processing, and creating search solutions with Elasticsearch, Typesense, and Meilisearch for fast data retrieval across millions of records. Expert in Redis caching strategies for high-performance applications.

DevOps & Infrastructure

Managing cloud infrastructure, containerization and orchestration, implementing CI/CD pipelines, Linux server administration, monitoring and logging systems, load balancing, and ensuring high availability and scalability of services.

AI & Automation

Extensive experience with AI integration and automation, building custom MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers for enhanced AI capabilities, developing AI-powered tools and workflows, prompt engineering, and creating intelligent automation systems that leverage large language models for data processing, content generation, and workflow optimization.
Certifications
AWS Certified
Laravel Certified
Zend Certified PHP Engineer
PHP Certified
Certified Scrum Master
Experience

→ Worked with commercial companies and Dutch government organizations, including ministries

→ Transforming unstructured web data into clean, accessible APIs

→ Building scalable data collection and processing systems

→ Open data platforms and government information systems

→ Real-time data synchronization and updates

Contact

Available for freelance projects and consulting

[email protected]
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