David Santoro
CTO Co-Founder at carwow
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDavid Santoro is a seasoned technology leader and CTO/Co-Founder based in London with 16 years of experience delivering scalable web applications. As CTO and Co-Founder of carwow since 2011, he shapes product engineering for a high-growth online car marketplace, guiding end-to-end delivery across frontend, backend, and data systems. He blends hands-on expertise across Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, C#, and Java with disciplined XP practices and a track record of shipping customer-focused platforms. His career spans ThoughtWorks, ITV, Barclays, Confetti Network, and other startups, giving him a rare mix of startup velocity and enterprise-savvy software craftsmanship. He holds a BSc in Computing/Information Technology from the University of Westminster and is based in the United Kingdom, bringing a product-minded leadership style to engineering teams. carwow is backed by Balderton Capital, Episode 1 and Samos Investments, underscoring the platform's growth trajectory under his leadership.
17 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computing, Information Technology, BSc Computing, Information Technology at University of Westminster
Italian, English
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Github Skills (21)
mvc10
rails10
ruby10
html10
activerecord10
ruby-on-rails10
api-client8
caching7
skeleton6
coercion6
validations6
json5
bsc4
web-application4
elixir3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
soulnafein/lesshassles
Feb 2009 - Apr 2009
A simple web-application that permits to create and share task lists. It is being developed for my BSc Computing's final year project.
Contributions:36 commits in 2 months
bscweb-applicationlistspermitscomputing
carwow/engineering_principles
Jan 2019 - Jun 2021
The carwow Engineering Principles
Contributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 years 4 months
engineeringprinciples
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