Antonio Makary

Computer Engineer (M.Sc.) specializing in Python-based web scraping, anti-bot evasion, and QA automation. 3 years of experience building production scrapers against hardened targets — bypassing Cloudflare, TLS fingerprinting, and CAPTCHA systems using curl_cffi, custom proxy rotation (Tor / residential / VPN), and undetected browser automation. Secondary expertise in iOS development (Swift/SwiftUI), full-stack web (React, Node.js), and computer vision research (published IEEE submission on hybrid traffic-sign detection). Comfortable in Python and Go.

QA Engineer & Web Scraping Specialist at Vyyer Technologies (2022-12 – Present)

• Engineered Python scraping pipelines against heavily protected commercial and government-portal targets, bypassing Cloudflare challenges, JA3/TLS fingerprinting, and invisible reCAPTCHA via curl_cffi and subprocess-driven solvers.
• Defeated fast browser-fingerprint detection systems by spoofing client signals and rotating session contexts across residential proxies, Tor, and VPN exits.
• Identified and exploited weaknesses in frontend CAPTCHA validation flows to retrieve authorized data at scale, reducing per-request cost and latency.
• Integrated live scraped data into the QA pipeline, building automated tests that validated production software against real-world inputs and surfaced regressions before release.
• Authored test scenarios, reported and triaged bugs in Jira, and ran daily stability checks on production web and mobile apps.
• Collaborated with developers in daily stand-ups to align on priorities, reproduce defects, and verify fixes.

Python Web Scraper at Stupid Good AI (2025-01 – Present)

• Built large-scale restaurant-data extraction pipelines covering TripAdvisor, Michelin Guide, TheFork, and Google Maps using Python with proxy rotation (Tor, VPN, residential) and Cloudflare/curl_cffi bypass.
• Reverse-engineered private APIs and GraphQL endpoints to replace brittle HTML parsing with stable, high-throughput JSON requests.
• Designed retry, backoff, and proxy-health logic to maintain >95% success rates across rate-limited and bot-protected endpoints.
• Delivered clean, normalized datasets feeding downstream AI training and analytics workloads.

QA Engineer at SmartTab (2025-01 – Present)

• Designed and executed test plans for web and mobile features, covering functional, regression, and edge-case scenarios.
• Logged and tracked defects in Jira, collaborating with developers and product to verify fixes and prevent regressions.
• Performed exploratory testing on new releases and contributed to release-readiness sign-off.

Restaurant Digital Menu Developer at Le Bagot, JJs Pizza, 3alafe, Sob7 w Massa (2021-10 – Present)

Designed and shipped four production digital menus for local restaurants, focusing on mobile-first UX and fast load times.

Freelance iOS App Developer at Independent (2025-11 – Present)

• Shipped end-to-end iOS app from backend to App Store release: Node.js REST API with parallel query execution, SwiftUI frontend on MVVM.
• Implemented pre-aggregated tables storing sum/avg/count per place, cutting average-rating query load by orders of magnitude.
• Ran network calls in detached tasks to keep the UI thread idle; applied Equatable conformance on reusable views to reduce redundant renders.
• Split the UI into micro-components for plug-and-play reuse across onboarding, stats, and profile screens.

M.Sc. in Computer Engineering – University of Balamand — Faculty of Engineering, Kalhat

B.Sc. in Computer Engineering – University of Balamand — Faculty of Engineering, Kalhat

Minor in Computer Science – University of Balamand — Faculty of Engineering, Kalhat