Tomé Duarte
Founder at Penguin Objective
Porto, Porto, Portugal
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Top SchoolTomé Duarte is a founder and fractional CTO with 14–17 years of hands-on startup experience building tech, teams and operational strategy across Europe and remote-first events. He scales engineering organisations from firefighting teams to disciplined delivery—hiring, culture change, SDLC, and cost-conscious cloud operations—while keeping a strong focus on DevOps practices and ROI-driven technical roadmaps. Previously he led engineering and live-operations at Web Summit, delivering high-concurrency event systems and global ICT services, and later shaped kencko’s software, data and infrastructure as VP/Head of Engineering. Now at Penguin Objective he helps startups navigate growth with risk-aware, profit-focused technical initiatives and dependable code. Notably, he combines deep systems and hosting experience with product-minded architecture work (monolith→domain-driven design) and a founder’s eye for vendor negotiation and financial planning.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master in Informatics and Computing Engineering Computer Engineering, Master in Informatics and Computing Engineering Computer Engineering at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
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Github Skills (54)
python9
ruby-on-rails9
localized9
rails-assets9
infrastructure9
remote-execution8
zeromq8
salt8
docker8
scale8
iot8
mongoid8
configuration-management8
infrastructure-management8
package-repository8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
tomeduarte/ai_letter_game
Dec 2011 - Jul 2013
Contributions:60 commits in 1 year 7 months
gamecontrollednegotiationagentsmachine-learning
tiagogodinho/localized_fields
Feb 2016 - Mar 2025
Helps you to create forms with localized fields using Mongoid
Contributions:2 PRs in 9 years 3 months
mongoidlocalizedfields
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