Building a Real-Time Job Alert & Proposal Triage Engine for Freelance Programmers
For a Senior Freelance Programmer on Upwork, responding thoughtfully to high-fit architecture and AI engineering projects within minutes of publication makes a decisive difference. To streamline discovery, I engineered an automated job ingestion, scoring, and WebSocket push-notification pipeline inside this platform.
1. Event-Driven Feed Ingestion & Deduplication
- Scheduled Polling & Atom/API Parsing: Background tasks fetch newly posted projects matching target technology stacks (Python, Django, FastAPI, Next.js, React, Go, LLM/RAG, Google Cloud).
- Deterministic Deduplication: Job identifiers and normalized URLs are hashed and stored in PostgreSQL so each project triggers at most one alert.
2. Relevance Scoring & Instant Web Push Notifications
Matching postings are scored against core skills and immediately broadcast over Django Channels WebSockets and Web Push (Service Worker VAPID notifications) to desktop and mobile devices. Looking to hire a freelance programmer directly without waiting? Invite Aldian Fazrihady on Upwork.