Lucas Mendes
Senior Frontend Developer at Motorola Solutions
Leiria, Portugal
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Top SchoolLucas Mendes is a Senior Frontend Developer based in Leiria, Portugal, with five years of experience building user-focused web applications and interfaces. He combines strong academic training—a Master in Informatics from IPB and a Computer Science degree from UTFPR—with hands-on roles across Motorola Solutions, Nokia, and Checkmarx, where he worked full-stack and on QA/test automation. At Checkmarx he contributed E2E tests to the well-known KICS open-source project, validating CLI outputs and improving infrastructure-as-code security workflows. Comfortable across React, Node.js, MongoDB and test automation (including Go-based test work), he brings both frontend polish and backend QA rigor to product teams. Known for bridging research and production, he previously developed web database systems and performed data analysis in R, giving him an analytical edge in feature design and validation.
5 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master in Informatics, Information Technology, Grade: 17/20, Master in Informatics, Information Technology, Grade: 17/20 at Polytechnic Institute of BragançaHigh School Diploma, Informatics, High School Diploma, Informatics at Federal University of Technology - ParanaBachelor of Computer Science, Information Technology, Grade: 8.4/10.0, Bachelor of Computer Science, Information Technology, Grade: 8.4/10.0 at Federal University of Technology – Paraná
Github Skills (10)
e2e-testing10
go10
test-automation10
e2e-test10
regular-expression9
vulnerability-detection8
golang8
security8
security-scan8
infrastructure-as-code7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Checkmarx/kics
Apr 2021 - Apr 2022
Find security vulnerabilities, compliance issues, and infrastructure misconfigurations early in the development cycle of your infrastructure-as-code with KICS by Checkmarx.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:8 reviews, 52 commits, 40 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Lucas's commits primarily focus on implementing and expanding end-to-end (E2E) tests for the KICS project. The contributions involve creating new test scenarios, modifying existing tests, and validating the output of the KICS CLI. The user worked with Go code and used regular expressions to validate test outputs. The user's efforts ensure the quality and reliability of KICS by testing various functionalities of the CLI.
kicscyclecompliancevulnerability-scannersiac
cxlucas/kics-scan-builder
Dec 2021 - May 2022
Kics Scan Builder is an online GUI tool for building KICS Scan Commands (reducing Kics CLI complexity)
Contributions:65 commits, 26 PRs, 28 pushes in 5 months
scancomplexitykicsgui-toolbuilder
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