David Avellaneda
Engineering Manager at Zalando
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Avellaneda is an engineering manager and seasoned software leader with 14 years of experience building web platforms, leading teams, and scaling developer practices across startups and large tech at Zalando. He combines deep front-end expertise (React, Angular, Ember, Webpack) with cloud-native operations (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, App Engine) and a history of shipping product-focused solutions as Monoku’s co-founder and CTO. Based in Berlin, he excels at knowledge transfer and cross-functional collaboration, having led checkout and communications teams while guiding engineering delivery and growth. A prolific community organizer—co-leading BogotáJS, ColJS, ColombiaDev, and JSConf Colombia—he brings strong developer relations and ecosystem-building skills that amplify technical impact. Notably, his career spans both hands-on coding and strategic engineering leadership, reflecting an appetite for entrepreneurship and technologies that simplify people’s lives.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Universidad de los Andes
Github Skills (73)
github10
subversion10
git10
patch10
mongoose9
slack-bot9
nodejs9
javascript8
meteor-application8
expressjs8
gulp-plugin8
internet7
cordova-plugin7
apple-pay7
partials7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
coljs/bogotajs
Sep 2012 - Jul 2017
Contributions:66 commits, 9 PRs, 44 pushes in 4 years 10 months
javascriptcomunidad
nodeschool/bogota
Mar 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year
nodeschooljavascriptexpressnodejsbogota
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