Summary
José Mendes is a DevOps Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building and automating CI/CD and reliability tooling across telecom, media, and public-sector environments. Based in the Porto area, he currently optimizes Jenkins-driven pipelines at Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa and has previously improved observability and container orchestration at ZAP and Priberam using ELK, Naemon, Docker and Kubernetes. Comfortable across Linux and Windows, he pairs scripting (Python, PowerShell, Bash) and infrastructure automation with database familiarity (Oracle, MySQL, Mongo) to keep large services resilient. His background in biochemistry hints at a methodical, analytical approach to problem solving and an ability to translate complex systems into repeatable operational workflows. Colleagues value his blend of deep operational experience and a pragmatic engineering mindset that favors reliable delivery over novelty.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc of Biochemistry, Bsc of Biochemistry at Universidade de Lisboa
Faculdade de Ciencias da Universidade de Lisboa
Post graduation, Computational Biochemistry - Proteomics, Post graduation, Computational Biochemistry - Proteomics at Faculty of Sciences of University of Lisbon
Portuguese, English, Spanish