About the Author

Ryan Mitchell is a senior software engineer at GLG, as well as a speaker and author.

An expert in web scraping, web security, and data science, Ryan has hosted workshops and spoken at many events, including Data Day Seattle and Texas and DEFCON. She has also taught web programming and data science and consulted on coursework at a variety of institutions. Ryan holds a master's degree in software engineering from Harvard University Extension School and is currently a senior software engineer at GLG where she creates data analysis tools. Ryan is the author of Web Scraping with Python (O'Reilly), as well as Instant Web Scraping with Java (Packt Publishing).