David Moreno
Chief Technology Officer at The Palace Company
Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico
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Top SchoolDavid Moreno is a seasoned technology executive and current CTO with 17 years of experience scaling platforms, building high-performing teams, and shipping product-led engineering in consumer and travel industries. He has led large, distributed organizations—most recently steering engineering and business-platform initiatives at DeepL for AI translation, Voice and API products, and earlier driving global Flights and New Product Development at Booking.com. Comfortable both in strategic tech planning and hands-on system design, he has deep experience with payments, identity, monetization, and high-throughput web services. An active open-source contributor to the Perl Dancer web framework, he brings practical backend craftsmanship to large-scale architectures. Based in Mérida, Mexico, he is known for creating focus, clarity, and accountability in teams while maintaining high employee engagement through periods of fast growth and restructuring. His background in mathematics and early systems work gives him a pragmatic, data-informed approach to product and platform decisions.
17 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
English, Spanish, Dutch
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
web-framework10
http10
perl10
exception-handling9
api-design8
html6
flash6
rake6
javascript6
cpan6
redhat6
debian6
package6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
PerlDancer/Dancer
Sep 2009 - Jan 2010
The easiest way to write web applications with Perl (Perl web micro-framework)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:David made significant contributions to the Dancer web framework, primarily focused on improving its core functionality. They refactored the MIME type handling mechanism, migrating from `File::MimeInfo` to `File::MimeInfo::Simple` to address installation issues. Furthermore, the user added features, such as a redirect helper, the addition of HTTP status code tables, and the `load` directive for modular route organization, and added Exception class for handling flow changes. These changes enhance the framework's usability and extend its capabilities for web application development.
micro-frameworkperlframework
damog/vitacilina
Jan 2009 - Sep 2016
Contributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 7 years 9 months
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