Marcos Placona
Director of Developer Relations at Circle- Claim this Profile
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LinkedIn User
Marcos and I worked together at WRI. His creative thinking, expertise and positive can-do attitude make him an absolute pleasure to work with. He delivered results and went above and beyond in providing exceptional service and support. As a leader, Marcos has a unique ability to motivate teams to understand projects and be invested in their success. He would be an asset to any organisation.
Dorota Wojdecka
I have worked with Marcos for over a year. He's an excellent manager, with great communication and problem-solving skills. He's got amazing technical knowledge and is very eager to expand it. Marcos has been an inspiring mentor for the whole team, helped me in my self development; he also cares about his team a lot, being always a go-to person for any problems. I can highly recommend him.
LinkedIn User
Marcos and I worked together at WRI. His creative thinking, expertise and positive can-do attitude make him an absolute pleasure to work with. He delivered results and went above and beyond in providing exceptional service and support. As a leader, Marcos has a unique ability to motivate teams to understand projects and be invested in their success. He would be an asset to any organisation.
Dorota Wojdecka
I have worked with Marcos for over a year. He's an excellent manager, with great communication and problem-solving skills. He's got amazing technical knowledge and is very eager to expand it. Marcos has been an inspiring mentor for the whole team, helped me in my self development; he also cares about his team a lot, being always a go-to person for any problems. I can highly recommend him.
LinkedIn User
Marcos and I worked together at WRI. His creative thinking, expertise and positive can-do attitude make him an absolute pleasure to work with. He delivered results and went above and beyond in providing exceptional service and support. As a leader, Marcos has a unique ability to motivate teams to understand projects and be invested in their success. He would be an asset to any organisation.
Dorota Wojdecka
I have worked with Marcos for over a year. He's an excellent manager, with great communication and problem-solving skills. He's got amazing technical knowledge and is very eager to expand it. Marcos has been an inspiring mentor for the whole team, helped me in my self development; he also cares about his team a lot, being always a go-to person for any problems. I can highly recommend him.
LinkedIn User
Marcos and I worked together at WRI. His creative thinking, expertise and positive can-do attitude make him an absolute pleasure to work with. He delivered results and went above and beyond in providing exceptional service and support. As a leader, Marcos has a unique ability to motivate teams to understand projects and be invested in their success. He would be an asset to any organisation.
Dorota Wojdecka
I have worked with Marcos for over a year. He's an excellent manager, with great communication and problem-solving skills. He's got amazing technical knowledge and is very eager to expand it. Marcos has been an inspiring mentor for the whole team, helped me in my self development; he also cares about his team a lot, being always a go-to person for any problems. I can highly recommend him.
Experience
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Circle
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United States
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Financial Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Director of Developer Relations
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Sep 2022 - Present
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Krunch
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United States
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Strategic Advisor
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Oct 2022 - Present
Advisor to the founders of Krunch, a data analytics platform to grow and measure your developer relations impact and make it easier to communicate it. Advisor to the founders of Krunch, a data analytics platform to grow and measure your developer relations impact and make it easier to communicate it.
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Twilio
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Head Of Developer Relations, EMEA & LATAM
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Dec 2020 - May 2022
• Led the Developer Relations team in EMEA, responsible for outreach and engagement with developers and driving adoption of company products and services in the region.• Defined and executed the company's developer relations strategy in EMEA, aligning with overall business goals and objectives.• Managed DevRel budget and delivered high quality programs and events within budget.• Grew the LATAM team from 0 to 4 people, while increasing developer adoption of company products by 45%.• Built strong relationships with key developer communities and evangelists across LATAM, resulting in increased mindshare and market share for the company. Show less
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Head of Developer Evangelism, EMEA
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Apr 2020 - Dec 2020
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Developer Evangelist, Manager
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Oct 2017 - Apr 2020
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Developer Evangelist
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Oct 2014 - Oct 2017
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Hostelworld Group
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Ireland
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Travel Arrangements
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200 - 300 Employee
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Principal Software Engineer
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Apr 2013 - Sep 2014
Building interesting distributed, scalable systems using .Net technologies and in charge of a team of .Net developers. Currently working with Memcached, Enterprise Queuing Systems and API integrations. Mainly using SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) to improve the information flow between HostelBookers’ & its newly integrated sister company (Hostelworld). We are now also working towards full PCI compliance. Building interesting distributed, scalable systems using .Net technologies and in charge of a team of .Net developers. Currently working with Memcached, Enterprise Queuing Systems and API integrations. Mainly using SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) to improve the information flow between HostelBookers’ & its newly integrated sister company (Hostelworld). We are now also working towards full PCI compliance.
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Urnox Ltd
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London
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Founder
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May 2012 - Apr 2014
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Technical Lead
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May 2012 - Mar 2013
As a technical lead, I was in charge of designing, architecting and prototyping applications that must perform and scale under heavy load. With one of our applications being on the top 3.5k most accessed according to Alexa.I carried out researches on what technologies are the most suitable for our ever-demanding applications, and made sure all code delivered by the development team met the coding standards established.I have worked on automating our AdWords integration with Google's API, which manages and automates around 26k ads a month. This required constant communication with partners and product team. Show less
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Lead Software Engineer
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Aug 2010 - Apr 2012
As a lead Software Engineer, I was in charge of two Agile development teams (.NET and ColdFusion) of various skill levels.I was required to provide technical assistance and mentoring to team members, write technical specifications for new projects, and assure standards were met prior to delivery.I have managed to get 100% unit test coverage on new projects and automated our builds through the use of build tools such as MS Build, Ant and Jenkins CI.
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Senior Software Engineer
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Oct 2008 - Aug 2010
As a senior Software Engineer I was in charge of developing Hstelbookers' main website, as well as its partner API's.During that time I have participated on an entire rebuild of the website including its core functionalities such as the booking engine and payment processing, and the addition to its 11 languages via resource bundles.
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European Commission
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Belgium
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Government Administration
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700 & Above Employee
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System Analyst
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Apr 2007 - Sep 2008
As a system analyst, I was in charge of developing internals systems for one of the most important entities in the European Commission (DG TREN, Energy and Transport). I worked on internal integrations between their Java Backend, and client facing ColdFusion websites. I have also participated on the first test automation project of the EU, and built a website generation script that used their template. As a system analyst, I was in charge of developing internals systems for one of the most important entities in the European Commission (DG TREN, Energy and Transport). I worked on internal integrations between their Java Backend, and client facing ColdFusion websites. I have also participated on the first test automation project of the EU, and built a website generation script that used their template.
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PJTV
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Entertainment Providers
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1 - 100 Employee
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Consultant Senior Developer
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Jan 2007 - Mar 2007
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Software Engineer
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Feb 2005 - Jan 2007
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Education
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2011 - 2014
The Open University
BSc (Honours) Computing & IT, Business Administration, Management and Operations -
2002 - 2005
Universidade Ibirapuera
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science
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