José Catalá

Backend engineer and indie maker building MyAirports — a real-time flight data API serving 1,000+ airports worldwide. I write technical deep-dives on web scraping (anti-bot systems, stealth Playwright, Cloudflare/Akamai bypass), distributed systems, and aviation data engineering. My articles cover practical JavaScript/Node.js challenges at real-world scale: processing 628K+ flights, normalising flight statuses across 7 languages, and building self-healing scrapers that get faster with every run.