Carlos Mendes
Principal Engineer at Thread
Ceará, Brazil
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Top SchoolCarlos Mendes is a Principal Engineer and senior technology leader with 18+ years of hands-on experience in software development, cloud, SRE, and application security, currently based in Ceará, Brazil. He blends deep academic rigor—a PhD focused on resilience in distributed systems with multiple best paper awards and 345+ citations—with practical delivery, having led teams of ~40 through platform, AI, security, and migration initiatives. At Gupy he moved from engineering manager to head of engineering and director roles driving security, platform and product innovation before joining Thread as Principal Engineer. Known for staying close to the code, he improves developer productivity and reliability (notably streamlining CI/CD and migrating to Fargate to cut MTTR) while scaling teams and systems. A marathon runner and former professor, he brings research-led thinking to pragmatic cloud-native and FinOps decisions.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Cloud Computing Software Engineering Resilient Systems, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Cloud Computing Software Engineering Resilient Systems at Universidade de FortalezaEstácio de Sá University
Portuguese, English
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Github Skills (91)
load-generator10
python10
testing10
http10
stress-testing10
performance-testing10
load-testing10
adaptation10
benchmarking10
locust10
rainbow10
architecture9
kubernetes-cluster9
scalable9
google-cloud9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ppgia-unifor/kubow
Jan 2019 - Apr 2022
An architecture-based self-adaptation service for Kubernetes
Contributions:171 commits, 18 PRs, 135 pushes in 3 years 3 months
self-adaptive-systemsrainbowdockeroperatorself-adaptation
cmendesce/terraform-modules
Jun 2017 - Sep 2021
A sample using terraform modules
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 2 branches in 4 years 3 months
terraformterraform-modulesaws
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