Ismael Mendonça
Chief Product & Technology Officer (CPTO) at NotMe Solutions
Santana, Portugal
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Top SchoolIsmael Mendonça is a Chief Product & Technology Officer and seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems. He has a strong track record at companies like Zapier and TravelPerk, where he delivered critical platform features (fine-grained authorization, allowed-apps) and led major migrations and architectural redesigns for scalability. Comfortable bridging product and engineering, he has led squads from formation to high performance, hired and mentored engineers, and shaped company-wide API and observability standards. Hands-on across backend, frontend and infra, his toolbelt includes Python/Django, FastAPI, Kubernetes, Terraform and AWS, with practical experience tuning 160TB Elasticsearch clusters and event-driven architectures. Trained at KTH and Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, he pairs formal software-engineering education with real-world system-building pragmatism. Based in Santana, Portugal, he combines product-focused leadership with a readiness to dive into low-level performance and reliability challenges.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineer (Ingeniero de la computación ) Computer Software Engineering, Computer Engineer (Ingeniero de la computación ) Computer Software Engineering at Universidad Simón BolívarEuropean master of software engineering Computer Science, European master of software engineering Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyMaster's degree Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree Computer Software Engineering at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
portuguese (intermediate), swedish (basic), french (intermediate), spanish (native), english (advanced)
Github Skills (43)
parsing8
validation8
json-schema7
pythonic7
python7
parser7
access-control5
scrollbar5
scrollview5
security4
authorization4
pydantic4
vscode-python3
vim3
sdk3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
IsmaelMT/google-interview-university
Jan 2018 - Oct 2020
A complete computer science study plan to become a software engineer.
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
scienceplancomputer-sciencestudy-plansoftware-engineer
IsmaelMT/nvim-conf
Feb 2020 - Jul 2021
Contributions:16 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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