David Coimbra

Software engineer building fast, well-architected web products.

About

I'm a software engineer from Lisbon. Right now I'm at Car & Classic, building a marketplace for classic cars with Laravel, Inertia, Vue and TypeScript. Before that I spent almost two years on critical internal tools for WebMD Ignite, and three and a half years freelancing end to end. Off the keyboard: chess, martial arts, and a soft spot for rom-coms.

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Experience

  • 2025 — now

    Car & Classic

    Software Engineer · Classic-car marketplace on a 20-year-old PHP codebase that grew into a Laravel modular monolith. Cut search filter traffic by ~90%, homepage data by two thirds, and built the form inputs every engineer uses.

    Laravel, Inertia, Vue, TypeScript, Elasticsearch

  • 2023 — 2025

    WebMD Ignite

    Software Engineer (via TightLine) · Critical healthcare platform on .NET microservices. Reshaped 30 overloaded endpoints into 46, taking responses from 3–11 s to 150–500 ms.

    .NET, Vue, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ

  • 2020 — 2023

    eBlueCode

    Freelance Full-Stack Developer · Client projects from the first meeting to production.

    React, Laravel, UX/UI

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Worked with

Current stack

  • TypeScript
  • PHP
  • Vue
  • Inertia
  • Tailwind
  • Laravel
  • MySQL
  • Elasticsearch
  • Redis
  • AWS S3
  • Cloudflare
  • Docker

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