Felipe Mendes
Technical Director at ScyllaDB
São Paulo, Brazil
Summary
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RockstarFelipe Mendes is a Technical Director based in São Paulo with five years of focused experience in backend engineering and database systems, currently leading at ScyllaDB after serving as a Solutions Architect. He brings practical expertise in high-performance NoSQL databases, contributing directly to the open-source ScyllaDB project by improving CQL behavior, compaction strategies, and AWS integration (including IMDSv2 support). Felipe combines hands-on engineering with customer-facing architecture work, helping organizations get predictable, low-latency performance at scale. His background includes nearly a decade in systems administration at IBM, giving him deep operational instincts that inform his design and deployment choices.
5 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (14)
databases10
configuration-management10
c-language10
aws10
cprogramming-language10
cassandra10
nosql10
database10
cql9
seastar9
cloud-services8
cloud-infrastructure8
amazon-ec28
ec8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
scylladb/scylladb
Sep 2021 - Sep 2022
NoSQL data store using the seastar framework, compatible with Apache Cassandra
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:44 reviews, 10 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Felipe primarily contributed to the ScyllaDB project, focusing on features and improvements related to CQL (Cassandra Query Language) and database configurations. Their work involved modifying the behavior of TimeWindowCompactionStrategy, including fixing invalid window sizes and adding restrictions on table creation and alteration. The user also made changes to the EC2 snitch for AWS cloud deployments, including IMDSv2 support. These contributions demonstrate a focus on improving database functionality, configuration, and cloud integration.
cppnosqlseastarcassandrasql
fee-mendes/scylla
Jul 2021 - Sep 2024
NoSQL data store using the seastar framework, compatible with Apache Cassandra
Contributions:24 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 2 months
nosqlseastarcassandrasqldata-store
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