Sam

Python Automation & Web Scraping Expert | Auto Auction & Marketplace Integration

Auto Services • Freelance

Jan 2023 - Present • 3 yrs 6 mos

Built and deployed a full-scale automation pipeline for a major auto dealership in New York, USA — transforming their entire car acquisition and sales workflow from manual operations to a fully automated system. Key Deliverables: - Automated daily scraping of car auction marketplaces (BacklotCars, OpenLane, Manheim MMR) to identify and track vehicle listings in real time - Developed end-to-end Python automation scripts for auction monitoring, pricing lookups, and deal alerts via email notifications - Built custom web scraping tools for multiple auto marketplaces with data extraction, deduplication, and CSV/Excel pipeline outputs - Delivered full web development support including dashboards and reporting tools tailored to the dealership's workflow - Scaled car acquisition capacity from 10 vehicles/week to 200 vehicles/week — a 20x productivity increase through automation Tech Stack: Python, Selenium, undetected-chromedriver, BeautifulSoup, Requests, Pandas, Gmail SMTP, REST APIs

Python Web Scraper & Product Research Analyst | Amazon & Walmart Marketplace

Top Selected Brand • Freelance

Jan 2023 - May 2025 • 2 yrs 4 mos

Worked with Top Selected Brand (topselectedbrand.com) — a certified Amazon SPN partner and wholesale distributor based in Miami, FL — to build an automated product research and data intelligence pipeline. Key Deliverables: - Scraped product listings, pricing, and sales data from multiple eCommerce marketplaces (Amazon, Walmart, and wholesale platforms) to identify high-margin, fast-moving products - Built automated product analysis tools to compare pricing trends, competition levels, and profit potential across platforms — enabling smarter buying decisions - Delivered structured product data (CSV/Excel) with insights to support FBA and WFS inventory selection for the client's Amazon and Walmart storefronts - Reduced manual product hunting time significantly by automating the entire research workflow — from scraping to filtered results ready for review Tech Stack: Python, Requests, BeautifulSoup, Selenium, Pandas, Excel/CSV Automation Skills: Python, Web Scraping, Data Extraction, Amazon FBA Research, Product Analysis, Pandas Industry: E-Commerce / Wholesale & Distribution

Delivered a large-scale data extraction and inventory management pipeline for a major automotive parts distributor based in Australia.

PartsAvatar • Freelance

Nov 2024 - Jan 2025 • 2 mos

Key Deliverables: - Scraped product and parts data from multiple supplier websites — extracting names, part numbers, prices, images, and specifications at scale - Built an automated PDF analysis system to extract structured data from parts catalogs and supplier documents - Developed cross-matching logic to compare and validate parts data across multiple sources using part numbers as unique identifiers - Designed and implemented a full ETL pipeline — cleaning, transforming, and loading structured data into a database for long-term inventory management - Organized parts inventory by part number, category, images, and metadata — giving the client full visibility and control over their product catalog Tech Stack: Python, Scrapy, BeautifulSoup, Pandas, PDFPlumber, PyPDF2, PostgreSQL/MySQL, ETL Pipelines