Marcello Duarte
Lead Software Engineer at La Royale Group
Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolMarcello Duarte is a Lead Software Engineer and seasoned people leader with 15 years’ experience building high-performing delivery teams and guiding large-scale digital transformations across companies like BT, OVO Energy, Nokia and Sony. He blends hands-on engineering (notably contributions to the phpspec BDD framework) with deep expertise in Agile, L&D and organisational design, advising C-level leaders and coaching engineering managers. Marcello has a track record of creating career frameworks, rolling out competency-driven learning programs, and scaling internal communities to sustain capability growth. An award-winning Agile coach (Best Agile Coach UK, 2014) and international conference speaker, he moves fluidly between strategy, coaching and code. Based in Lisbon, he combines a practical software craftsmanship background with a talent for translating business needs into sustainable delivery models. A former entrepreneur and open-source contributor, he often surfaces implementation-level fixes that improve testing and framework robustness.
16 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Licentiate, Computing for Management, Licentiate, Computing for Management at Universidade Autónoma de LisboaBachelor, Social Science, Bachelor, Social Science at UERJGraphical Arts, Graphical Arts at Escola Artística e Profissional Árvore
Portuguese, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (16)
unit-testing10
web-framework10
php10
test-automation10
error-handling9
jenkins9
code-coverage9
refactoring8
refactor8
rspec6
phpspec6
continuous-integration6
mockery6
phpunit6
testing6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
phpspec/phpspec
Aug 2010 - Aug 2019
SpecBDD Framework for PHP
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:2 releases, 4 reviews, 530 commits in 9 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Marcello primarily contributed to the PHP Spec BDD framework by modifying core classes and tests. Their commits involved changes to the visibility of methods, including updates to classes related to console options, specifications, contexts and the framework's error handling. They also added support for before() and after() context hooks, expanded tests, and fixed bugs. The user demonstrated an understanding of testing and framework internals.
php
phpspec/phpspec2-site
Jan 2013 - Jan 2014
Contributions:22 commits, 1 comment, 1 issue in 1 year
phpspecphp
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