David Ramalho
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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SeniorDavid 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.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (123)
opentok10
tokbox10
converting10
currency-converter10
geolocation10
rgeo10
parsing10
trigrams9
sdk9
hstore9
entity9
localization9
pg-search9
slack-bot9
ruby9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
HomeStayTravel/resources_controller
Jul 2015 - Feb 2020
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 7 months
controllercontrollersrailsrestfulruby
HomeStayTravel/despamilator
Jan 2015 - Nov 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 10 months
spamspam-detectionweb-forms
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