William Coates
CTO at Fooji
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolWilliam Coates is a seasoned technology leader and entrepreneur with 14 years of software engineering experience and a decade of startup involvement across London, Helsinki and Lisbon. As CTO of Fooji since 2016 (and formerly VP Engineering there), he combines hands-on engineering with product-focused leadership, shipping web-scale systems built on Ruby on Rails, Node.js and Java. He has repeatedly founded and scaled niche digital businesses—from an underground music storefront that grew to substantial revenue to a retail logistics and crypto exchange technical leadership—demonstrating both commercial savvy and technical depth. His academic background in Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems and Cognitive Science informs a data-driven, systems-thinking approach to product engineering and team growth. Notably, he spent time in Finland’s leading incubator Startup Sauna in 2013, reflecting long-standing engagement with European startup ecosystems.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems, Master of Science (MSc) Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems at University of Sussex
English, Portuguese, Finnish, French
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Github Skills (123)
kraken10
exchange10
api10
bitcoin10
kucoin10
bitmex10
huobi10
mws9
http-request9
dynamodb9
trading9
trading-bot9
coingecko9
cryptocurrency9
market-maker9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Fooji/create-aws-profile-action
Jun 2020 - Jul 2021
A GitHub action to setup an AWS profile
Contributions:2 releases, 1 review, 8 commits in 1 year 1 month
shieldsaws-profileshieldsiobadgeaws
meXBT/mexbt-ruby
Nov 2014 - Aug 2015
Contributions:33 commits, 18 pushes, 3 comments in 8 months
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