Simon M

I build data APIs for the markets everyone else ignores.

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• 🌍 Who I am: Data engineer focused on African & frontier capital markets — Simon, based in Hamburg, Germany
• 🤓 My journey: Multiple years of writing scrapers; now turning hard-to-reach exchange data into clean, predictable APIs
• 🚀 What I'm building: Programmatic access to the BRVM (West African regional exchange) — 46 listings across 8 WAEMU countries, the first of a planned African Markets Data suite
• ⚒️ My toolkit: TypeScript · Crawlee · Apify · zod · the occasional 1am debugging session
• 🎯 Who it's for: Fintechs, diaspora investing apps, and researchers who need data that doesn't exist anywhere else yet
• 🇩🇪🇬🇧🇫🇷 My languages: German, English & enough French to read a Côte d'Ivoire trading bulletin
• 🫱🏻‍🫲🏽 Work with me: Open to custom scraping & data-feed projects
• 💬 Best way to reach me: Apify DM