David Leal
Head Of Information Technology Department
Porto, Porto, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Leal is a seasoned IT leader with 18 years of experience, currently heading the Information Technology Department at Natixis in Porto. He progressed through technical and managerial roles—from full‑stack tech lead to software development manager—bringing hands‑on engineering judgment to strategic IT delivery. Fluent in English, French and Portuguese, he combines a master's in Computer Software Engineering with a practical passion for AI and computer graphics. David also contributes to open-source tooling around deployments (notably improving Capistrano integrations and HipChat API notifications), highlighting a focus on robust release workflows and developer experience. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem solver who bridges low‑level implementation detail and high‑level operational needs.
18 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Computer Software Engineering, Master's Degree Computer Software Engineering at Universidade do Minho
Github Skills (9)
capistrano10
apim10
git10
git-repository10
api10
hipchat10
github10
deployment-automation10
ruby10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
hipchat/hipchat-rb
Oct 2010 - Jul 2011
HipChat HTTP API Wrapper in Ruby with Capistrano hooks
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:35 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on enhancing the deployment process and integrating Capistrano with the HipChat API. Their contributions include setting up notifications for deployment events (start, finish, and migrations), handling deployment cancellations, and improving the user experience by displaying relevant deployment information. The user also refactored the code, renamed functions, and improved environment variable lookup.
apihipchatapi-wrapperrubycapistrano
david/devdesktop
Apr 2024 - Apr 2025
Contributions:110 pushes in 11 months
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