David Fortunato
Engineering Team Manager at Squarespace
Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Fortunato is an engineering leader with nine years of hands-on software experience and over six years managing and scaling cross-functional teams, currently leading an engineering team at Squarespace from Coimbra, Portugal. He has a strong track record building new offices and teams (having founded GoodBarber’s Coimbra office), improving delivery predictability, and shaping ways of working for data and frontend platforms across fintech and consumer product companies. Comfortable bridging product and engineering, he has led Data Platform efforts at Fidel API and steered frontend delivery for high-stakes projects like Betfair’s web and mobile app, prioritizing stakeholder alignment and team autonomy. Known for rapidly stabilizing newly formed teams, he emphasizes clear goals, feedback-driven growth, and “start finishing, stop starting” flow improvements that boosted morale and velocity. Technically rooted in Android, PWA and platform engineering, he blends architecture-level thinking with people-first management to turn complex requirements into reliable, consumable outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Licenciatura, Computer Software Engineering, Licenciatura, Computer Software Engineering at Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra
English
Github Skills (17)
stripe9
android-sdk9
payment9
payment-processing9
google-pay9
adyen8
typescript8
square8
payment-methods7
sdk7
android6
dts4
android-library4
boilerplate4
kotlin3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
goodbarber/GBRecyclerIndicatorSample
Jul 2017 - Aug 2019
Contributions:1 release, 2 pushes, 2 tags in 2 years 1 month
goodbarber/androidengine_gbrecyclerindicator
Jul 2017 - Nov 2019
This library is used in the Android native engine of GoodBarber. It handles Android RecyclerViews items removing boilerplate code and automatically manage the different types of elements on the List.
Contributions:13 releases, 22 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 5 months
boilerplateboilerplate-codeelementsandroid-libraryandroid
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