David Ramalho
Chief Technology Officer at Trojan Horse was a Unicorn
Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolDavid Ramalho is a seasoned technology leader and hands-on CTO based in Lisbon with over 12 years of experience building web platforms from the ground up. He excels in application design, data modeling and creating self-contained subsystems, blending the right mix of technologies—from MySQL, PHP and Apache to Ruby on Rails and Node.js—to solve real product problems. As co-founder of multiple ventures and long-time technical lead at Homestay.com, he has shipped backend architectures, APIs and realtime features like video chat and instant messaging at scale. His background ranges from systems administration and enterprise Active Directory deployments to modern web architectures, giving him a rare full-stack perspective on reliability and operations. Known for treating engineering like Lego—experimenting with new pieces to jolt synapses—he pairs pragmatic decision-making with a taste for elegant technical craftsmanship.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Highschool, Highschool at Escola Secundária Alves RedolFrequency Computer Science, Frequency Computer Science at Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa
Portuguese, English
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Github Skills (171)
opentok10
tokbox10
scopes10
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geolocation9
hstore9
trigrams9
sdk9
entity9
localization9
api9
pg-search9
slack-bot9
ruby9
uglifier9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
HomeStayTravel/resources_controller
Jul 2015 - Feb 2020
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 7 months
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HomeStayTravel/despamilator
Jan 2015 - Nov 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 10 months
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