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S Balaji

@sbalaji

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I build scalable web data extraction frameworks and lead reliable data delivery for global retail clients.

India

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What I'm looking for

I'm looking to lead web data extraction and automation initiatives where I can build resilient scraping frameworks, improve data quality, optimize delivery, and support teams serving business-critical clients.

At Dataweave, I lead end-to-end web data extraction delivery for global retail and quick-commerce clients, ensuring SLA adherence and high data quality.

I build and maintain scalable Python scraping frameworks, assess source feasibility, and design extraction strategies for complex web sources. I also engineer resilient crawlers using proxy rotation, session management, cookie customization, and API-based proxy strategies.

I've led production root-cause analysis for blocking, layout changes, pipeline disruptions, and tooling issues, working closely with engineering, data pipeline, and infrastructure teams. I use stress testing and performance tuning to keep data delivery consistent under high load.

Across Dataweave and Ugam Solutions, I've combined extraction engineering with task planning, resource planning, team management, performance feedback, cataloging, taxonomy mapping, and process automation.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Sr. Data Engineer

Current

Dataweave

Oct 2022 - Present (3 years 11 months)

Plan day-to-day activities for subordinates and self, ensuring timely completion of tasks. Develop and maintain web scraping scripts using Python, and lead end-to-end delivery for global clients across retail and quick commerce domains.

Python Web Scraping Selenium Webdriver BeautifulSoup XPath Proxy Rotation Session Management Performance Testing Performance Optimization Root Cause Analysis AI Tools Automation SLA Adherence Data Quality

Team Leader

Ugam Solutions

Apr 2021 - Oct 2022 (1 year 6 months)

Planned day-to-day task allocation for team members and handled cost derivation and resource planning. Monitored team activities and performance, sharing constructive feedback and resolving queries.

Task Assignment Resource Planning Cost Derivation Team Management Performance Feedback Issue Resolution Optimization Automation Server Maintenance

Software Engineer

Ugam Solutions

Feb 2017 - Mar 2021 (4 years 1 month)

Performed website analysis to identify the right approach and tools for building web crawlers. Developed data collection/scraping scripts using Java/Selenium and Python/BeautifulSoup with XPath, CSS Selectors, and AWS servers.

Java Selenium Python BeautifulSoup XPath CSS Selectors AWS Web Crawling Data Collection Server Monitoring

Content Analyst

Ugam Solutions

Jul 2014 - Jan 2017 (2 years 6 months)

Created product catalogs for online retailers, covering item setup, product naming, taxonomy mapping, and attribute mining. Manually sourced required data from external web sources and validated peer data quality.

Cataloging Taxonomy Mapping Attribute Mining Data Quality Automation Team Management