Pedro Mendes
Systems Engineer at Cloudflare
Greater Braga Area Portugal
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Top SchoolPedro Mendes is a systems engineer with 10 years of hands-on experience building backend and infrastructure software, currently contributing to Cloudflare after backend roles at Speechify and IoT-focused Emitu. Grounded in Computer Engineering and pursuing graduate studies in Informatics at Instituto Superior Técnico, he is fluent across low-level and high-level languages—C, Rust, C++, Go, Python, Kotlin, Typescript and Bash—and has an appetite for functional languages like Haskell and Elixir. He combines a systems-first mindset with practical backend experience, shipping scalable services and tooling for performance-sensitive environments. A passionate Rust and Linux enthusiast who also loves teaching, he brings both mentoring instincts and deep technical curiosity to teams. His personal motto—quoting "Your greatest weakness is your greatest strength pushed too far"—hints at a reflective engineer who balances rigor with adaptability. Based in the Greater Braga Area, Portugal, he blends academic foundations with product-facing engineering across startups and cloud platforms.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Ensino Secundário, Ciências e Tecnologias, Grade Average: 15/20, Ensino Secundário, Ciências e Tecnologias, Grade Average: 15/20 at Escola Secundária Alberto SampaioBachelors Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering, Grade Average: 15/20, Bachelors Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering, Grade Average: 15/20 at Universidade do MinhoMaster of Engineering - MEng, Informatics, Master of Engineering - MEng, Informatics at Instituto Superior Técnico
Portuguese, English, Spanish
Github Skills (200)
serverless10
hotkeys10
api10
karabiner10
rust-language10
compiler10
webassembly10
network-programming10
cloudflare-workers10
standard-library10
que10
libbpf10
ffi10
rust-lang10
rust10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
mendess/snek
Jan 2020 - Sep 2022
Contributions:1 release, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
mendess/m
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
A music player accidentaly written in bash using mpv as a """backend"""
Contributions:267 commits, 1 PR, 375 pushes in 2 years 7 months
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