David Goaté
Co-Founder & Chief Architect at Marshmallow
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Goaté is a technology leader and founder with over a decade of hands-on experience building and scaling cloud-native systems for high-growth fintech. As Co-Founder, CTO and now Chief Architect at Marshmallow he led a 60+ engineering organisation, helped grow the business to a $1–2bn valuation and delivered products that have insured over 1M drivers and generated over £1bn in revenue profitably. He combines strategic product-driven architecture with operational rigor—delivering real-time pricing and embedded insurance systems that directly drive commercial outcomes. Known for leading 0→1 expansion teams, he systematises new product launches to find PMF quickly while preserving reliability and developer experience. A first-class Computer Science graduate, he brings startup grit from early roles at Yoti and other founding-engineer positions to enterprise-grade engineering and team-building.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Crowstone Preparatory SchoolThorpe Hall SchoolBachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, 1st, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, 1st at University of East Anglia
English
Github Skills (139)
identity10
testing10
coverage10
security10
aws-java-sdk10
spring-mvc10
netflix-eureka10
sdk10
netflix10
continuous-integration10
graph10
verification10
java10
netflix-zuul10
spring-boot10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
marshmallow-insurance/java-backend-test
Jun 2018 - Jul 2020
Java Backend Test
Contributions:4 PRs, 5 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 1 month
spring-bootjavabackendjava-backend
davidgoate/davidgoate-dot-co-dot-uk
Mar 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 19 days
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