Fernando Mendez
Independent Consultant. at Self-Employed
Dominican Republic
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Top SchoolFernando Mendez is an independent consultant and senior software engineer with over 17 years of experience building telecommunication and enterprise-scale web applications that serve millions of users. He designs microservices and event-driven architectures and bridges frontend and backend work—shipping React, Vue, SASS/Tailwind UIs as well as Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis and Rust-backed services. Fernando has modernized infrastructure in production environments (AWS EC2→ECS migrations, DB migrations) and led complex integrations such as Stripe and external microservice connectors. Educated with an MSc in Software Engineering from RIT and a BS in Systems Engineering from Universidad Católica Santo Domingo, he combines solid academic grounding with long-term hands-on delivery. Based in the Dominican Republic, he frequently operates as a remote, cross-functional contributor who also handles product-facing incident triage and customer support, blending engineering with operational ownership.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
M.S, Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering, M.S, Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Rochester Institute of TechnologyB.S., System Engineering, B.S., System Engineering at Universidad Católica Santo Domingo (UCSD), RD
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Github Skills (100)
mysql-database10
databases10
payment-gateway10
abstraction10
ruby10
activeadmin10
couchdb10
minio10
payment-integration10
payment10
shopify10
arbre10
rails10
mongodb10
adyen10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
fmendez/dot-files
Jun 2014 - Aug 2022
Contributions:37 commits, 2 PRs, 25 pushes in 8 years 2 months
fmendez/fmendez
Nov 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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