About

David Bartolomei

I’m a software engineer, engineering leader, and founder from Puerto Rico. For more than a decade, I’ve built software products and data platforms, led engineering teams, and founded Monitorea.

I’m currently building Monitorea. Before that, I led engineering at Nave and worked across media, data, infrastructure, and applied machine learning.

Experience

2025–Present

Founder

Monitorea

Building media intelligence software for communications teams across radio, television, podcasts, web, print, and social.
Leading the company while remaining hands-on across product, engineering, data, and infrastructure.

2021–2024

Director of Engineering

Nave

Developed and executed a five-year data strategy spanning architecture, governance, operations, and analytics.
Built a scalable data platform and automated more than 20 processes, saving over 200 staff-hours each month.
Led the performance and career development of a five-person engineering team.

2020–2021

Senior Software Engineer

Red Ventures

Built data infrastructure for five affiliate-media brands reaching approximately two million monthly visitors.
Automated pipelines and reporting that reduced manual data gathering from hours to minutes.

2019–2020

Engineering Manager

Optic Power

Led a nine-person engineering team delivering products for gaming, real-estate, and logistics clients.
Introduced delivery practices that increased completed work by 30%.

2016–2019

Co-Founder & CTO

Monito Media

Built a real-time speech-recognition platform for radio and television, reducing mention alerts from roughly one hour to under a minute.
Reached approximately $30K in total revenue and secured $60K in accelerator grants before closing it in 2019.

2017–2018

Senior Software Engineer

GFR Media

Helped build the first paywall for Puerto Rico’s newspaper of record, serving more than 100,000 print subscribers and 50 million monthly page views.
Built its online subscription-management system.

2016

Full-Stack Engineer

TiX.By

Built tools for event producers and integrations with ticketing platforms as part of a three-person development team.