Paco Mendes
GM Software Engineering at MTN Group Management Services (Pty) Ltd
Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolPaco Mendes is a seasoned engineering leader with 10+ years building and scaling distributed product and project teams across Africa, Europe, and global tech firms. Currently GM Software Engineering at MTN’s S2 | Kente, he’s known for bootstrapping high-velocity teams that blend product-led growth thinking with strong engineering practices. Previously he led monetization, billing and subscription migrations at Hotjar/Contentsquare, driving platforms that supported $60M+ ARR. Paco combines hands-on technical roots (MSc Eng) with program leadership experience at Apple, SPAN and frog, regularly bridging engineering, product and GTM. He’s passionate about growing diverse, high-engagement teams and proud of helping shape a distinctly African tech identity that rivals US/EU talent.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MSc(Eng) Software Engineering, MSc(Eng) Software Engineering at University of the Witwatersrand
Afrikaans, Portuguese
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Github Skills (38)
java10
documentation-generator10
bootswatch10
database10
apache-curator9
consensus9
gitbook9
zookeeper9
sass9
doc9
documentation8
apache8
big-data8
tla8
abstract-syntax-tree8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
SPANDigital/presidium-core
Feb 2017 - Sep 2018
A Jekyll based technical software documentation framework
Contributions:1 release, 128 commits, 13 PRs in 1 year 7 months
tlapresidiumglossarydocumentation-sitejekyll-based
pacomendes/leandra
Jan 2017 - May 2019
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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