Christian Olear
Senior Fullstack Web Developer
PHP Artisan with a Passion for Web Crawling & Scraping
Summary
Experienced Senior Fullstack Web Developer with 17 years of professional experience. Expert in PHP backend development - started using PHP 25 years ago. Passionate about web crawling and scraping – developer of the open source project crwlr.software and founder of crwl.io, the SaaS tool based on the open source library. Strong focus on clean, maintainable and performant code.
Experience
Founder @
crwl.io
and Freelance Web Developer
10/2022 until now
- Building crwl.io - a low-code SaaS app that lets users configure crawlers/scrapers via UI.
- Creating crawlers based on client requirements and delivering the requested data.
- Supporting clients in analyzing and making use of the extracted data.
- Also working on general-purpose web applications not related to web crawling/scraping.
Web Developer at karriere.at / jobs.at
05/2008 until 12/2021
- Lead Web Developer at karriere.at - 01/2019 until 12/2021
- Lead Web Developer at Spin-Off jobs.at - 05/2017 until 12/2018
- Web Developer - 04/2012 until 05/2017
- "Online Producer" - 05/2008 until 04/2012
Achievements
- Built a web crawling app (before crwl.io) that reliably loaded and processed over 1,000,000 pages from thousands of websites daily - for several years. 🕷️
- Over 500 ⭐️ on GitHub for the crwlr packages.
- crwlr/query-string became a dependency of Bref and has been installed nearly 3,000,000 times.
- Won first paying customers for crwl.io. 🚀
- Pitched crwlr in Jetbrains' PHP Annotated YouTube edition .
- Was part of a company journey from fewer than 10 to over 200 employees.
- Speaker at local coding meetups .
- Published an article for entwickler.de / PHPMagazine.
Education
Bundeshandelsakademie Schärding
(Matura)
09/2001 until 05/2007
Contact
Technologies
- PHP
- Javascript
- Laravel
- Vue.js
- Inertia.js
- Tailwind CSS
- PEST / PHPUnit
- Symfony
- Docker
- MySQL (/PostgreSQL)
- Redis
- RabbitMQ
- Slim
- Zend (now Laminas)
- Node.js
Languages
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German: native
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Englisch: advanced