Diogo Mendes is an engineering manager with 15+ years of experience building and scaling high-performing teams across growth, loyalty, DevOps, and quality assurance. He has led cross-functional squads at iFood and Super to drive measurable outcomes—raising conversion by double-digit percentage points in tests and supporting peak traffic of ~3800 req/s through gamification and scalability work. A hands-on leader, Diogo blends test automation and DevOps expertise—contributing Cypress E2E suites to Metabase and migrating CI pipelines to GitHub Actions—to keep reliability and delivery velocity aligned. He has a track record of modernizing legacy infrastructure and reducing production incidents through process and tooling changes, including significant improvements to build times and QA metrics. Known for building teams from scratch and mentoring engineers, he runs disciplined 1:1s, career frameworks, and data-driven monitoring with Datadog. Based in Brazil with an MBA and electrical engineering background, he pairs deep technical chops with product-focused leadership to translate business goals into reliable engineering execution.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical Engineering Technologies/Technicians, Electrical Engineering Technologies/Technicians at Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Project Manager, Master of Business Administration (MBA), Project Manager at ESAMC
The easy-to-use open source Business Intelligence and Embedded Analytics tool that lets everyone work with data :bar_chart:
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:35 releases, 226 reviews, 278 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Diogo focused on creating and modifying end-to-end tests for the Metabase application. They wrote Cypress tests to reproduce and verify reported issues, including those related to filters, Google sign-in, and embedding. The user also refactored existing tests to utilize API calls and integrated the Mochawesome reporting library to improve test result visibility. Their contributions involved modifying test configurations and adjusting testing strategies.
The simplest, fastest way to get business intelligence and analytics to everyone in your company :yum:
Contributions:4 PRs, 36 pushes, 2 branches in 9 days
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