Federico Sturtz

Python Developer with 5+ years of experience building backend applications, automation solutions, web scraping systems, and enterprise software. Experienced building scalable production-grade solutions with FastAPI, REST APIs, Playwright, Scrapy, Selenium, PostgreSQL, SQLAlchemy, Docker, and modern Python automation frameworks. Strong background designing scalable Python applications, integrating third-party APIs, processing structured and unstructured data from web platforms and external sources, and solving complex production issues.

Experienced working across the full software development lifecycle, using AI-assisted development tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, and GitHub Copilot to accelerate implementation, testing, debugging, and code quality.

Python Backend Developer | Automation Engineer at Thoughtful AI (2024-07 – 2026-04)

• Developed and maintained production-grade healthcare payment automation systems using Python, Robocorp, and Windows automation technologies.
• Automated insurance payment workflows processing thousands of transactions weekly across 50+ medical practices.
• Integrated REST APIs, web portals, SharePoint/Office 365, Slack notifications, and external data sources to support complex automation workflows.
• Developed browser automation and modern web scraping workflows using Playwright and Scrapy to interact with web portals, extract and validate structured data, and support downstream automation processes.
• Designed resilient web scraping workflows including browser automation, request interception, retries, timeout handling, pagination, and structured data extraction.
• Designed, implemented, and tested payer-specific business rules, writing Pytest unit tests and validating automation flows in DEV before production deployment.
• Investigated complex production issues through log analysis, debugging, and root cause analysis across code, business logic, and external data inconsistencies.
• Improved automation reliability by implementing retries, timeout handling, popup management, and workflow resiliency improvements.
• Managed Robocorp Control Room environments and automation execution on virtual machines (VMs).
• Collaborated with technical leads and business stakeholders to improve automation coverage, system stability, and performance.

Python Backend Developer | FastAPI Developer at Kunan S.A. (2023-11 – 2024-07)

• Developed and maintained Python and FastAPI backend APIs for an agricultural analytics platform processing drone and geolocation data.
• Designed and implemented REST endpoints, business logic, data validations, and role-based access control workflows.
• Modeled and maintained PostgreSQL database structures using SQLAlchemy, including tables, relationships, and CRUD operations.
• Integrated third-party APIs, Snowflake data sources, and backend services, managing data exchange and processing across application components.
• Took ownership of backend tasks from analysis and database design to implementation, testing, and pull requests.
• Delivered complex backend features under tight deadlines, including critical data processing logic while senior team members were unavailable.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements and external algorithms into scalable Python backend solutions.
• Worked with Docker-based development environments for backend applications.
• Used Docker to run and test FastAPI services and PostgreSQL databases in local development environments.
• Integrated FastAPI backend services with Snowflake to query and process application data using SQL, supporting backend APIs and business logic.

Python Automation Engineer | RPA Developer (Naranja X) at Kunan S.A. (2021-12 – 2023-11)

• Developed and maintained enterprise automation solutions using Python and Blue Prism, supporting finance, customer service, and internal business operations.
• Led the transition from traditional RPA solutions to Python-based automations by proposing simpler, more scalable, and maintainable approaches.
• Designed and developed end-to-end Python automation workflows integrating Google Forms, Google Sheets APIs, databases, emails, OCR document processing, and internal systems.
• Built complex event-driven workflows managing business rules, customer responses, deadlines, notifications, and multi-step approval processes.
• Automated daily business operations, replacing significant manual effort and improving process efficiency and reliability.
• Refactored existing Blue Prism automations and developed new automation solutions from scratch based on changing business requirements.
• Processed and transformed data from multiple sources, including spreadsheets, APIs, databases, and uploaded documents.
• Developed browser automation and web scraping workflows using Selenium, BeautifulSoup, and Python to extract, validate, and process business data from web platforms.
• Integrated scraped and extracted data into downstream automation workflows involving spreadsheets, APIs, databases, emails, OCR document processing, and internal systems.
• Collaborated with business teams to analyze requirements, design technical solutions, and deliver production-ready automations.

Early RPA Developer Experience at Multiple Companies (Indra, Agnostic, IT Convergence) (2019-03 – 2021-12)

• Developed enterprise RPA solutions using Blue Prism, UiPath, and Automation Anywhere.
• Automated business processes for enterprise clients, including SAP-related workflows and internal systems.
• Participated in the full RPA lifecycle, including process analysis, bot development, testing, deployment, documentation, and production support.
• Worked with scripting and programming technologies such as VBScript, VB.NET, C#, and Java to customize automation solutions.