A remote contract or long-term opportunity where I can provide automated solutions for competitor monitoring, change detection, price tracking, inventory monitoring, lead generation, market research, and web data collection that supports business decision-making.
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Michael Mathias
@xhimatty
Building automated solutions for competitor price and inventory monitoring, lead generation, and market research, to support decision-making
NigeriaWhat I'm looking for
I’m a Web Scraping Engineer focused on building automated extraction systems with Python.
The systems I build extract structured data from APIs, public websites including e-commerce websites, real estate websites, marketplaces, and business directories. Providing solutions for competitor price and inventory monitoring, change detection, lead generation, and market research that support business decision-making.
I’m skilled at developing scalable data pipelines using Scrapy, Playwright, requests, other Python libraries and tools, GitHub Actions, GCP, API reverse engineering, PDF extraction, and handling JavaScript-heavy websites and bypassing anti-bot protections.
I deliver clean, structured data in formats such as JSON, CSV, Excel, Google Sheets, and databases for business use
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
FR
Current
Web Scraping Engineer
Freelance
Sep 2025 - Present (1 year)
Automated extraction of tabular data from 100–300 daily PDF invoices using Python and Playwright, delivering cleaned, structured Excel reports. Reducing client processing time by 85% by merging multi-source datasets and standardising outputs.
Delivered targeted data extraction solutions for dynamic websites, reducing manual data collection effort by ~70%. Improved scraper success rate by 60% by addressing CAPTCHA and browser fingerprinting with human-like interaction patterns and request handling.
TM
Data Cleaning Specialist
Tee Pearls Mini-Mart
Jun 2025 - Jul 2025 (1 month)
Cleaned and standardised 30 days of sales data using Python, reducing manual processing time by 70%. Corrected missing values with logical formulas and automated exports to Excel and CSV, improving reporting efficiency by 60%.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
WP
Wolex Polytechnic
Diploma in Computer Science, Computer Science
2013 - 2017
Applied computer science fundamentals to practical problem-solving, with a focus on using technology to automate and improve efficiency.
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Website
xhimatty.netlify.appPortfolio
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45k-100k USD
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