Marta Fonda
Senior Director Of Engineering at Handshake
Walnut Creek, California, United States
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Top SchoolMarta Fonda is a senior engineering leader with 11 years of experience building product and engineering organizations, currently serving as Senior Director of Engineering at Handshake. She combines startup founder experience with proven execution at scale—having built and led the first product engineering teams at Joinedapp and rebuilt platforms at Billin—while managing distributed teams across time zones. Marta is strong at hiring and developing high-performance engineering teams, aligning product strategy with technical roadmaps, and improving developer experience through processes and tooling. Her background spans full-stack engineering, product management, and marketplace businesses, grounded in dual degrees in Software Engineering and Business Administration. A frequent mentor and speaker, she brings entrepreneurial instincts and hands-on architecture instincts to large education-focused engineering efforts. Notably, she has driven rapid user growth and platform launches earlier in her career, reflecting a bias for measurable outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Web Development Web Development, Web Development Web Development at IronhackBachelor of Software Engineering (B.S.E.) Software Engineering, Bachelor of Software Engineering (B.S.E.) Software Engineering at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Spanish, English, German, French
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
martafonda/tasker
Dec 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:8 commits in 1 day
ReactJSMadrid/talks
Jun 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:4 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 2 months
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