Shane Donavan Smith Jr
I thrive on bridging the gap between raw data and business value — whether by automating redundant tasks, building full-stack applications or data pipelines, web scraping new sources of data, or providing actionable insights.
Live — idle between batches
Chess Progression Crawler
A data pipeline I built that snowball-crawls the Chess.com public API to study how players climb through rating bands. It starts from a handful of seed accounts and discovers new players through the opponents they've faced.
Now scraping
Connecting to the live feed…
Crawl totals
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players collected
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games stored
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monthly archives
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players in queue
More coming soon — rating-progression charts and survival-analysis results from this dataset.
Data via the Chess.com Public API.
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I'm always open to connecting with fellow engineers, data enthusiasts, or anyone interested in automation.