AI engineering
Design, prototype, and integrate AI powered features with the right balance of speed, reliability, and human judgment.
AI ENGINEERING · CONSULTING · OPEN SOURCE
Making complex ideas work in the real world.
I'm Rodrigo Palacios, an engineer working at the intersection of AI, data, and the web. I turn ambiguous problems into useful systems, from early prototypes to production architecture.
WHAT I DO
I design and build intelligent software that solves real problems. My background in web data extraction and systems architecture shapes a practical approach to AI: explore boldly, engineer carefully, and make the result usable.
HOW I CAN HELP
From possibility
to product.
Focused engineering support for teams ready to put ambitious ideas to work.
Data & automation
Turn messy web data and manual workflows into dependable pipelines, tools, and decisions.
Technical consulting
Get a clear path through architecture decisions, technical discovery, and hands-on implementation.
SELECTED WORK
Built to explore.
Built to last.
A few threads that connect my work across web data, developer tools, and research.
01OPEN SOURCE02DATA EXTRACTION03RESEARCH
wxpath
A declarative web crawler that expresses traversal and extraction directly in XPath.
libextract
Open source Python tooling for extracting useful content from the web.
Web content extraction research
Co-authored research on the evolution and future of web content extraction.
THOUGHTS & EXPERIMENTS
Notes from
the field.
Ideas, experiments, and practical lessons from building on the web.
Sep 29, 2026
Flipboard's Summarization Algorithm, Sort Of, in Usable Python
A small, runnable Python 3 implementation of graph-based extractive summarization, revisiting my Flipboard-inspired gist.
Read article Sep 29, 2026What if XPath could follow links?
The idea behind wxpath: use XPath to describe both what to extract from a page and which pages to visit next.
Read article May 16, 2015Data Extraction in 10 lines of Python
Can the data extraction problem be solved in 10 lines of Python? Read and find out!
Read articleHAVE A PROBLEM WORTH SOLVING?
Let's make it happen.
Whether you're shaping an AI idea or untangling a technical challenge, I'd love to hear about it.
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