Toufeeque Ali

Data Scraping and Automation Engineer

Self Employed

Nov 2025 - Present • 9 mos

Engineered and maintained large-scale web scraping and automation systems handling millions of records daily. Built production-grade crawlers for Facebook and YouTube using Playwright and Selenium, with advanced bot detection bypass including reCAPTCHA audio solving. Developed real-time data pipelines using Apache Kafka, Celery, and Redis. Integrated AI-powered sentiment analysis on scraped social media content. Designed RESTful APIs using Django and managed PostgreSQL databases with optimized bulk insert and transaction handling. Delivered automation tools for Google Sheets, Notion, LinkedIn, Google Maps, and TripAdvisor. Worked with MinIO/S3 for media storage and built microservices-based architectures for enterprise-level data collection platforms. Key Achievements: Built a Facebook crawler scraping thousands of posts and comments daily with keyword filtering and real-time sentiment analysis Developed a YouTube crawler intercepting GraphQL responses via Playwright CDP for structured data extraction Solved reCAPTCHA audio challenges programmatically using the Vosk speech recognition model Implemented Kafka-based messaging pipelines connecting Django backends to distributed worker services Built a WhatsApp-distributed screenshot automation tool for Google Sheets and Notion monitoring Reduced pipeline failures significantly through savepoint-based PostgreSQL transaction handling Engineered a TripAdvisor GraphQL scraper bypassing advanced bot protection mechanisms.