Summary
Evelyn Mendes is a Senior Software Engineer based in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, with a long-standing passion for technology and over two decades of hands-on experience across mobile, backend, and microservices architectures. Currently contributing to Latam credit solutions at Orbia, she brings deep expertise in GraphQL, NoSQL, Docker, RabbitMQ and mobile architectures, and has led engineering teams, coached new hires, and practiced agile leadership. Her background spans startups and consultancies—shaping product architecture at DBServer, advising on mobile architecture at Sanar, and improving globalized enterprise systems earlier in her career. Known for combining rigorous code quality with people-first management, she has mentored trainees into fully productive engineers while prioritizing team mental health. As a transgender woman who’s been building software since 2002 and loving tech long before that, she blends technical depth with lived experience that informs inclusive team culture and resilient delivery.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Porto Alegre
Portuguese, English