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humpf

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About humpf

Data pipeline & scraping engineer in Kansas City, KS. Focus on defensive parsing, multi-source record reconciliation, and strict automated validation rails.

Projects: - GAScout (https://gascout.pages.dev) — Georgia public-records intelligence engine. Parsed a 9,915-page mainframe PDF into 409,142 records with zero row drops. - NACup.us (https://nacup.us) — Ranked news from 16+ feeds, merged venue listings from Yelp/Foursquare/OSM/Google Places, and automated daily 185-page SSG site builds. - FindStorage (https://findstorage.pages.dev) — National storage pricing tracker (4,600+ sites, 245k price updates) running unattended daily with layout-drift circuit breakers. - ESP32 WiFi CSI — Custom ESP-IDF firmware + Python DSP pipeline device-fingerprinting security array.

Background: Self-taught (~18 months). Prior to tech, owned/operated a 500-acre motocross facility and racing series (Honey Lake MX) in NorCal.

Portfolio: https://braedenkeena.pages.dev Email: braeden@thekeenas.com

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    Location: Kansas City, KS (US Central) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, web scraping and data extraction, ETL pipelines, Playwright, BeautifulSoup, Tessera…