Marco Lopes
Lead Software Engineer at The Walt Disney Company
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorMarco Lopes is a Lead Software Engineer based in London with 14 years of experience delivering digital products across media, energy, and broadcast companies, currently leading engineering at The Walt Disney Company. A certified Scrum Master and advocate of Agile and functional programming, he blends hands-on Scala and backend development with technical leadership and team coaching to help teams deliver the right outcomes. His career spans senior roles at ITV, OVO Energy and Inviqa, where he moved from senior engineering into technical team leadership and agile consultancy. An active open-source contributor, he has improved the phpspec SpecBDD framework with parser and matcher enhancements—a detail that highlights his practicality in improving tooling and developer experience. He’s known for pairing engineering rigor and good practices with a pragmatic focus on shipping high-quality software in complex, fast-moving organisations.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
English, Portuguese, Spanish
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Github Skills (3)
php10
testing10
git7
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
phpspec/phpspec
Jan 2012 - Feb 2012
SpecBDD Framework for PHP
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:36 commits, 2 comments in 20 days
Contributions summary:Marco contributed to the PHPSpec framework by fixing tests related to textmate backtrace lines and merging branch `develop` into `includematcher`. Further contributions include addressing a default formatter bug and accepting the include matchers option in the parser. Additionally, the user implemented features related to custom matchers and created various supporting files.
phpphp-frameworkrad
openpassword/blimey
Oct 2013 - Feb 2015
Contributions:130 commits, 10 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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