Luís Mendes
Platform Technical Lead
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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SeniorLuís Mendes is a Platform Technical Lead based in Lisbon with over a decade building cloud-native systems, currently shaping platform and architecture at Mercedes‑Benz.io. He blends deep backend expertise in Java, Ruby and Perl with hands-on AWS architecture (Solutions Architect Associate) and production experience in Kubernetes, PCF, Docker and CI/CD. As a former CTO and co-founder, he pairs engineering leadership with product-minded delivery—driving backend strategy across multiple locations and large-scale web projects. He enjoys algorithms and retro consoles, a hint of the tinkerer mindset that influences pragmatic, performance-focused solutions. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex infrastructure needs into resilient, maintainable services and to push teams toward modern microservice practices.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Portuguese, English
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Github Skills (98)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
passworks/passworks-ruby
Jan 2015 - May 2019
Ruby bindings for the Passworks API
Contributions:5 releases, 2 PRs, 21 pushes in 4 years 5 months
apiruby-bindingsruby
passworks/help-docs
Jun 2016 - Mar 2021
Passworks help documentation
Contributions:6 PRs, 53 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
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