Background
I've been a software engineer for the last 15 years. Over these years I worked across different domains and stacks.
I built applications from scratch where the business logic was really complex and domain sophisticated. I worked on API and streaming platforms handling thousands of requests per second — with real-time aggregation and analytics pipelines. I worked with Solr-based search infrastructure indexing hundreds of gigabytes of data, which turned out to be unexpectedly helpful later — understanding how search indexes work gave me an intuition about vector databases and AI knowledge bases.
That background shaped how I build WebCrawlerAPI. As a developer for developers. I understand what a good API should be. And I have enough expertise to build it.
How WebCrawlerAPI started
The idea came in 2023, right after GPT-3.5. My friend and I wanted to build a support chatbot for SaaS, that could answer questions based on a real website content. There was nothing like that at that moment and the idea was new. But there was nothing to actually get the full content of the website - scrapers could only do it with one page. The use case was simply too fresh.
I hacked it with some scripts. In a few days we had a working prototype. The chatbot demo went nowhere. But the crawler stuck with me.
I released the first version of WebCrawlerAPI in 2024 and have worked on it every day since.
What I'm building
Build the best API possible - this is my life mission. Fast, accurate, reliable API with perfect markdown - is the goal. The main focus is on quality. When something breaks, I hear about it almost immediately. As a part of automation I have notifications about any kind of errors.
Engineering I can handle. Marketing is a different story — I'm figuring it out as I go.
I always answer myself in support chat. No AI chatbots (ironically). If you reach out there - make sure it is me, who wrote code, answering your question. This gives me a pulse - talk with real customers. However, this means some people in different timezones don't get an answer in minutes — they wait until my morning.
Outside of work
I live in the Netherlands with my family — two daughters who never let me get bored. I'm learning piano as a hobby. I read a lot, fiction and non-fiction both. And living where I do means cycling every weekend, rain or shine (which in the Netherlands means mostly rain).
If you want to say hi — drop me an email.