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MEET THE TEAM! Meet our newest Senior Engineer, Muhammad Owais! Muhammad Owais is from Karachi, Pakistan, and has a passion for technology that began with the humble .jar game files on old Java mobiles. Fascinated by how these files worked, Muhammad also enjoyed experimenting with scripts to manipulate Blogspot blogs and transforming YouTube cache files into videos — true tech curiosity in action! The journey into programming officially started with a PDF book in Urdu on JavaScript and PHP. Muhammad began creating fun and quirky scripts like a "love calculator" using PHP, which led to a web designer course, followed by a diploma in "Mobile and Web App Development." Embracing the MERN stack, Muhammad has been a full-stack JavaScript developer ever since and is now excited to dive into Ruby with the open and vibrant culture at SerpApi. Muhammad also loves making open-source contributions and created DummyJSON to give back to the community. Outside of work, he is an avid cricket player, having captained a team and organized neighborhood tournaments during their childhood. Although there's less time for cricket now, Muhammad remains a big fan of sci-fi movies and the Marvel universe. A few years back, he set up a small web server at home using old hardware to learn the ins and outs of hosting. Muhammad also loves visiting the northern areas of Pakistan for their breathtaking landscapes and peaceful retreats whenever he gets some time or is on vacation. #serpapi #meettheteam #seniorengineer #engineering

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MEET THE TEAM! Meet one of our newest Customer Success Engineers, Sonika Arora. Sonika is originally from New Delhi, India. She grew up in Dubai, and moved to the United States in 2016. She is based in the San Francisco Bay Area in California. Her passion for programming began in high school when she took a computer science class and discovered the power of using code to create websites and products from scratch. As she delved deeper into programming, her enthusiasm for contributing to innovative products grew. Sonika graduated from UC Berkeley and has worked as a software engineer at technology companies like Netskope and Amazon. More recently, she ventured into product management with a startup. She enjoys working at the intersection of product development and customer success, helping users fully leverage product features to achieve their goals and improve their experience. She is good at understanding the pain points of customers and translating their feedback into actionable items. The passionate team at SerpApi and the opportunity to make an impact attracted her to the company. She was immediately impressed by the product and saw immense potential in it. She appreciates SerpApi’s policies of asynchronous communication and internal trust, which foster a collaborative and supportive work environment. An interesting fact about Sonika is that she has traveled to more than 15 countries. She loves exploring different cultures and cuisines, and learning about the history behind various places. #serpapi #meettheteam #customersuccess #engineering

🚨 New Blog Post Alert! 🚨 At SerpApi we have an extensive blog with lots of tutorials and post new blogs each week! Here are the new blog posts we have had for the month of July so far! This month we have all sorts of posts from detailed tutorials to telling you what’s new with SerpApi! We also just released collections on Postman and you can read all about them in article number 3 on this list! Find all URLs on a Domain (New 2024) Download images from a URL (Python and NodeJS solution) Using SerpApi with Postman Retrieving a Direct Media Link from the Google Ads Transparency Center API New and Often Missed Features of SerpApi Access real-time data with Gemini API using Function Calling You can check all of these out and more at serpapi.com/blog !

MEET THE TEAM! Meet our newest Customer Success Engineer, Nathan Skiles! Nathan, originally from the east coast of the US in Delaware, now calls Portland, Oregon, home. Their passion for technology began early, sparked by modding video games on the family computer as a child. This interest led them to a vocational high school where he studied Computer Engineering Technology, focusing on hardware and networking. Pursuing this further, he studied Computer Information Systems in college. However, instead of following a traditional IT path, he took a different route and worked as a server and bartender at a fine-dining Peruvian restaurant in Portland. The restaurant's closure during the pandemic allowed them to revisit their interest in technology, reigniting their passion for tech. With the extra time on their hands, Nathan attended a coding boot camp, delving into C# and Python programming. This experience led to a Support Engineer role at a CRM company, where they combined their technical skills with their love for customer service. What excites Nathan most about programming is the challenge of breaking down complex problems into manageable tasks. This problem-solving aspect drew him back into tech after initially writing it off as a career path. Joining SerpApi was an easy choice for Nathan due to the company's strong commitment to transparency, both internally and with its customers. He found the SerpApi team refreshingly open and dedicated to this principle, making it clear that transparency is a core value for everyone in the company. Outside work, Nathan is a massive sports fan, especially baseball and American football. They love trips to Seattle to watch the Mariners play and enjoy exploring the natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest through camping and hiking. #serpapi #meettheteam #customersuccess #portland

Time for another #OfficeAroundtheWorld this week in Sofia, Bulgaria! Watch as Martin shows you around his workspace! Fun Fact: In Bulgaria, they nod their head for "no" and shake their head for "yes", in contrary to much of the world! 🌍 #serpapi #officesaroundtheworld #Bulgaria #funfacts #engineering

MEET THE TEAM! Meet our newest Senior Engineer, Dmytro Horoshko! Dmytro Horoshko is from Ukraine and currently lives in its North-West countryside. In the early days, when the internet had just begun being a common thing and media platforms started to pop up, the cult of digital piracy took its roots as well. That was the exact time when Dmytro started fiddling with those old web catalogs trying to offload favorite songs, so they could be cranked up to 11 in the background while playing Unreal Tournament 1999 (pirated as well, of course). No code back then, just third-party tools and utilities. Many years later, after getting through university and a whole set of C-like languages, Dmytro introduced himself to Ruby, and that was his first developer's love. Combined with a skillset for getting "hard to get" data, Dmytro started doing freelance jobs where scraping was involved. Eventually, it turned into a full-time occupation and a bunch of interesting projects with dozens of clients worldwide. Things that Dmytro is always concerned about while messing even with the most obscure problems - solution elegance and the aesthetics of code (courtesy of Joe Armstrong). "So really, just make it beautiful!" © After the accidental discovery of SerpApi through some random Google search, Dmytro was over the moon that he finally found a company that incorporates both things he likes very much – Ruby and scraping. And that's how the story began. Outside of work and the role of husband and father to 4 cats and 1 chonky corgi, Dmytro likes wandering through unknown places in the wilderness doing nature and landscape photography, mountain biking, nerding out about music releases of old days, nerding out about vintage photo gear and playing retro video games. #meettheteam #Ukraine #engineering #serpapi

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MEET THE TEAM! Meet our newest Customer Success Engineer, Alex Barron! Alex Barron was born and raised in the U.S., but is calling his father's native England home from now on. Alex was first exposed to programming in high school, but it didn't quite spark a passion yet. Later while studying Economics at Rutgers University, he took Intro to Computer Science as an elective his senior year and realized he should have majored in Computer Science all along. After university, Alex worked in software partner management, but learned programming on the side with small personal projects and improving some processes at work. He started with PHP and JavaScript, and then fell in love with Ruby. He later did a bootcamp and pivoted to more technical work as an API Solutions Engineer where he was able to combine technical and interpersonal skills to solve problems. Alex was drawn to SerpApi because of its unique culture of transparency, remote-first, asynchronous, and global. Also, he loved the fact it was an API only company that used Ruby. Alex's fun fact is he's lived in 5 countries: the U.S., Japan, China, Italy, and the U.K. He hopes to stop moving around so much going forward. When Alex isn't helping customers be more successful, he enjoys reading long books, lifting heavy things at the gym, Italian cuisine, and spending as much time as possible with his wife, son, and Shiba Inu. #serpapi #meettheteam #customersuccess #engineering #england