Wasif Ali

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scraping expert web developer 5+ yrs xp 🏆 top rated upwork freelancer

Islamabad, Pakistan

I build resilient, enterprise-grade web scrapers that reliably handle Cloudflare, Akamai, and Datadome-protected sites, combined with the web development expertise to create premium frontend apps and seamless automation pipelines.

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About Myself

Data extraction at scale

I am a highly motivated Software Engineer, Web Scraping Specialist, and Web Developer with over 5 years of industry experience. I specialize in building interactive user experiences, reverse-engineering web applications, overcoming bot-detection barriers, and automating dynamic browser interactions.

My core skillset includes setting up robust data extraction pipelines, AI-powered integrations, CRM sync loops (Salesforce, HubSpot), Google App Scripts, and responsive web development.

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Top Rated Web Scraping Specialist on Upwork Recognized among the top Web Scraping & Crawling experts in Pakistan, maintaining a 5.0 rating across 180+ completed contracts.

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Python Scrapy Playwright JavaScript Selenium Puppeteer Cloudflare Bypass Requests Web Development API Integration App Scripts BeautifulSoup OCR Extraction Reverse Engineering

Skills

Tech stack

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🕷️Scraping

🛡️Anti-Bot & Reversing

🌐Web Development

💾Databases

⚙️Automation & APIs

Frameworks & libraries for advanced data extraction — 5+ years, 500+ scrapers built

Scrapy

Playwright

Puppeteer

Selenium

BeautifulSoup

Requests

LXML

App Scripts

Solving captchas, navigating bot-detection systems, and analyzing client-side scripts — ensuring stable, uninterrupted data extraction from highly protected websites

Reverse Engineering

Cloudflare Turnstile

Akamai v3 Handling

Datadome Navigation

PerimeterX Handling

TLS / JA3 / JA4 Fingerprints

IP Rotation / Proxies

ReCaptcha / hCaptcha

JS Obfuscation Analysis

Penetration Testing

Programming, frameworks, and frontend architectures — combining modern interactive styles with performance

Website Development

HTML5 / CSS3 / ES6 JS

Python (Django/Flask)

Node.js (Express)

Vue.js 2.5/3

Responsive Web Design

UI/UX Micro-Animations

Frontend Performance

Data storage, design, and retrieval systems — handling complex database transactions

MySQL

Oracle Database

PostgreSQL

SQLite

Database Modeling

Connecting CRM systems, automating web tasks, and parsing documents — saving businesses hours of manual data entry through custom automations

Zapier & Make.com

Salesforce API Integration

Apollo Integration

PDF Parsing & OCR

Google Sheets Automation

n8n / Zoho Flow

Experience

Professional milestones

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Upwork Freelancing

Top Rated Web Scraping Specialist · Remote

click to expand Mar 2020 – Current +

Maintained a 100% Client Satisfaction score on Upwork over 5 years.
Extracted clean datasets from job boards (LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor), yellow pages, and dynamic e-commerce portals.
Built advanced stealth configurations to handle rate limits, captcha challenges, and anti-bot protection systems reliably.
Developed desktop GUI scraper apps (Python tkinter/PyQt) and tasks automation scripts.

PythonScrapyPlaywrightCAPTCHA SolvingGUI Apps

Ficstar Software Inc.

Project-based Web Scraper · Toronto, Canada (Remote)

click to expand Nov 2023 – Aug 2024 +

Developed scalable web scraping programs using Python and Node.js for retail analytics.
Built an automated scraping program to extract location and pricing matrices from Starbucks across multiple geographic zones.
Configured protection-handling modules to manage Cloudflare-protected sessions and automate login token workflows.

Node.jsCloudflare HandlingData PipelinesJSON/CSV

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Web Scraper Lead · Islamabad, Pakistan

click to expand Jan 2021 – Oct 2023 +

Directed a team of junior data crawling engineers to maintain site indexing spiders.
Successfully crawled and parsed core details from 300+ US-based higher education portals.
Created parsing scripts to transform PDF records and unstructured web copy into normalized relational DB formats.

Team LeadershipPDF ParsingMySQLWeb Scraping Pipelines

Projects

Selected builds

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Starbucks pricing scraper & automation

Dynamic automated collection of weekly pricing matrices from 288 retail locations across Chicago.

PythonStealth CrawlingAkamai BypassAuto-scheduling

Overcame anti-bot blockers by implementing cookies session storage.
Normalizes extracted pricing points, store addresses, and active menu listings.
Outputs daily analytics in JSON, XML, and Excel formats.

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Real Estate Listing Harvester

Large scale listing and history scraper built to index Zillow properties and agent registries.

ScrapyProxy RotationOCR ParsersPostgreSQL

Processes dynamic Javascript views using playwright wrappers.
Extracts listings history and pricing trends to output structured tables.
Safely bypassed rate limitations via auto-throttling and proxy rotation.

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Apollo + Salesforce Sync Loop

Webhook-driven lead generation sync pipeline with database cleaning and enrichment loops.

APIsZapierHubSpotCRM Management

Syncs new leads from Apollo search listings to CRM pipelines in real time.
Auto-deduplicates addresses and checks validity via integrated cleaning modules.
Cut administrative processing times by 80% with workflow automation.

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AI Agency Portfolio & Frontend

Fully responsive branding website showing modern styling, animations, and high performance.

HTML5Vanilla CSSJavascriptUX Design