Kashif Aziz

Web Scraping, Data Extraction Expert and Python Developer

Karachi, Pakistan

Summary

I have experience of web scraping, data extraction and transformation using Python. I can extract, process and package data in various formats including CSV, JSON and XML. I can also build data pipelines to fetch and input data to databases and WordPress based sites.

I have also worked with various APIs and data sets.

Languages:

English, Urdu

Favorite Python Packages:

Requests, BeautifulSoup, Pandas, Pyexcel

Experience

With 2 years of Python development experience, I am very much on hands with gathering business requirements and implement them using well document, PEP8 compliant code.

Some of the tasks where I have utilized my Python skills are:

 Developed a wrapper for Indeed Job Search API. Searches jobs listed at Indeed.com based on location and keyword, stores result in a CSV. https://github.com/kashaziz/indeed-python-wrapper

 Developed an interface to access and rename files on Dropbox. This was achieved using Dropbox API and Python SDK.

 Built a RESTful API to translate Excel documents using Google Cloud Translation API. The translation preserves sheet styles and formulas.

 Built a data pipeline to scrape property listings and incorporate the data into a Wordpress site.

Tools and technologies used: Python Flask, SQLite, BeautifulSoup, Requests, Pandas, Pptx, Pyexcel

Skills

Flask, Pandas, Selenium, Web Scraping