Ross Gales
Computer Scientist
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRoss Gales is a computer scientist with nine years of experience who blends frontline emergency response insight with deep technical expertise to build AI- and information-driven tools for disaster response and social good. Currently a D.Phil. researcher at the University of Oxford, he focuses on making social media data more actionable for crisis organizations while championing responsible research and innovation. His hands-on stack includes Python/Django, Celery/Redis, PostgreSQL, D3.js and scikit-learn, and he has contributed to open-source Twitter-scraping tooling by modernizing compatibility and adding Firefox support. With dual undergraduate degrees and a first-class master’s from the University of Melbourne, Ross pairs rigorous academic training with practical systems engineering to deliver reliable, ethically minded solutions under real-world constraints.
9 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at University of OxfordThe University of Melbourne
English, German, Chinese
Github Skills (6)
firefox10
selenium-ide10
twitter10
selenium10
python10
webscraping10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Altimis/Scweet
Mar 2022 - Mar 2022
Scrape tweets, profiles, followers and following from Twitter/X, no API key needed. Python library with smart multi-account pooling, proxy support and async.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 2 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Ross primarily focused on fixing deprecation warnings and updating the codebase to align with newer versions of libraries, specifically related to Twitter scraping functionality. These changes involved modifying the `Scweet/utils.py` file to ensure compatibility with updated Selenium and related web-scraping tools, demonstrating a focus on maintaining the core functionality of the Twitter scraper. Additionally, the user contributed by adding support for Firefox driver.
asyncproxypythonscrapetwitter
rosscg/crisis-data
May 2017 - Jun 2022
Twitter user network data collection tool (ongoing Ph.D. work)
Contributions:212 commits, 3 PRs, 173 pushes in 5 years 2 months
twitter
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