Luís Fonseca
Staff Software Engineer at Depop
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolLuís Fonseca is a Staff Software Engineer based in London with 13 years of experience building and scaling consumer-facing platforms. He progressed through hands-on engineering roles at Pusher and Depop, moving from senior to staff level while focusing on reliable, real-time and high-throughput systems. At Depop he has driven cross-team technical initiatives since 2020, bringing product-facing engineering judgment together with mentorship and architectural direction. His background includes early-career backend work and a foundation in engineering from the University of Porto, giving him a practical, systems-first approach to design. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who balances delivery speed with maintainability and long-term technical health. He often operates at the intersection of product and platform, translating ambiguous requirements into robust, ship-ready solutions.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
Github Skills (179)
devise10
http-api10
firmware10
authentication10
guzzle10
lua10
eventmachine10
esp3210
php-library10
rest-api10
composer10
espressif10
blocking10
chatkit10
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
pusher/push-notifications-go
Feb 2018 - Feb 2019
Pusher Beams Go Server SDK
Contributions:1 release, 23 commits, 16 PRs in 11 months
golangpusher-beamssdkgo-serverbeams
pusher/push-notifications-server-java
Jan 2018 - Feb 2019
Pusher Beams Java Server SDK
Contributions:1 release, 15 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year 1 month
pusher-beamssdkjava-serverbeamspusher
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