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Mykhailo Sakalo
Python Automation Engineer | Web Scraping Specialist
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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Python automation engineer with hands-on experience building end-to-end pipelines for e-commerce and
data extraction. Specializes in REST API integration, reverse engineering undocumented endpoints, and
turning manual workflows into fully automated systems. Every solution is evaluated by one metric: time saved
or revenue generated for the business.

CORE SKILLS
Languages & Tools: Python 3, REST API, HTTP Requests, JSON, Web Scraping, DevTools (Network tab /
XHR analysis), Prompt Engineering
Libraries: requests, BeautifulSoup
Domains: E-commerce Marketplace Automation, Process Automation, Data Extraction & Monitoring, API
Integration
Workflow: Git, VS Code, Google Sheets (data I/O)

EXPERIENCE

Python Automation Engineer May 2025 – Present
Independent Contractor / Freelance | Remote
Project: E-commerce Automation Pipeline (Prom.ua API Integration)
▸ Developed core automation components for product data ingestion from competitor storefronts,
including HTML parsing and structured data extraction.
▸ Built and tested automated product upload scripts via REST API, handling catalog updates and payload
formatting.
▸ Engineered robust error-handling logic for API rate limits, endpoint-specific failure codes, and malformed
JSON payloads to ensure pipeline stability.
▸ Experimented with AI-driven (LLM) description generation to produce unique product copy, reducing
duplicate-content risk across listings.
▸ Outcome: Reduced per-product upload time from manual minutes to seconds per item across catalog
batches.
Project: Real-Time Data Monitor (Reverse-Engineered API)
▸ Built a data extraction tool targeting a platform with no public API documentation, achieving full
automated monitoring without any official SDK.
▸ Reverse-engineered endpoint logic by analyzing live browser traffic via DevTools Network tab —
intercepted XHR/fetch requests, decoded request headers, query parameters, and authentication
patterns.
▸ Implemented a polling engine that processes JSON responses and triggers alerts on slot/data
availability changes in real time.
▸ Outcome: Eliminated the need for manual page refreshes; monitoring latency reduced to seconds with
zero human intervention.

EDUCATION

BSc in Software Engineering (In Progress) 2023 – Present
West Ukrainian National University (WUNU) | Faculty of Computer Information Technologies
Available for a technical screening or a take-home scraping / integration task.