Ricardo Mendes
CEO, Co-founder at Vawlt
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolRicardo Mendes is a Lisbon-based technology founder with 13 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and security-first storage solutions. As co-founder and CEO of Vawlt, he leads the company’s push to simplify multi-cloud data storage and accelerate cloud migrations from months to hours while enabling new go-to-market models for ICT providers. He moved from CTO to CEO, blending deep technical grounding—anchored by an MSc in Computer Engineering—with product and business leadership. Prior research experience at LASIGE informs a methodical, research-driven approach to reliability and secure architecture. Quietly, he pairs academic rigor with pragmatic startup execution, turning complex distributed-systems problems into commercially viable platforms.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Computer Engineering, Master's Degree Computer Engineering at Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (28)
filesystem10
driver10
windows-kernel10
fuse9
vfs9
kernel9
windows8
appindicator8
tray-icon7
proxy7
swt6
syntax6
swing6
encryption6
charon6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cloud-of-clouds/charon-fs
Apr 2016 - Jan 2020
Charon: A Dependable Cloud-of-Clouds System for Storing and Sharing Big Data
Contributions:10 commits, 1 push, 2 branches in 3 years 10 months
pythoncharonstoringsharingbig-data
cloud-of-clouds/SCFS
Feb 2014 - Apr 2016
Contributions:52 commits, 38 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 3 months
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