Ricardo Mendes
Principal Data & AI Consultant, North America
Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Top SchoolRicardo Mendes is a Principal Data Consultant with two decades of software development experience and a recent eight-year focus on data and AI, currently growing North American clients' data capabilities from Minas Gerais, Brazil. He blends a product mindset with hands-on engineering to implement lakehouse architectures, streaming IoT pipelines, and DataOps practices using AWS, Terraform, GitHub Actions, and Great Expectations. Ricardo has led cloud migrations, DataOps/MLOps reference implementations with Google Cloud (Vertex AI, Dataproc) and contributed open-source samples to the widely used google-cloud-python client, particularly around Data Catalog and policy tagging. His background spans embedded system modernization, enterprise integration, and founding an ERP startup, giving him rare end-to-end fluency from architecture to customer success. An MBA in Data Science & Analytics complements his technical leadership and governance work, and outside of work he writes about tech, raises a family, and watches birds—reflecting a curious, disciplined thinker who connects technical detail to real-world outcomes.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Data Science & Analytics, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Data Science & Analytics at MBA USP/EsalqBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at UFOP - Universidade Federal de Ouro PretoMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Corporate Finance, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Corporate Finance at Fundação Dom Cabral
Spanish, English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (14)
google-cloud-platform10
python10
gcp10
testing8
pytest8
http6
windows6
docker-machine6
nginx6
alpine-linux6
docker6
bash6
container6
virtualbox6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
googleapis/google-cloud-python
Nov 2019 - Nov 2019
Google Cloud Client Libraries for Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 commits, 2 PRs, 2 issues in 3 days
Contributions summary:Ricardo primarily contributed to the Google Cloud Client Library for Python, focusing on the Data Catalog service. Their work involved adding sample code to create entry groups and fileset entries, demonstrating an understanding of the Data Catalog API. They also modified testing configurations and build scripts, indicating involvement in testing and project setup. Additionally, the user added a sample for the PolicyTagManagerClient.create_taxonomy, extending their contribution to another service.
google-cloudpython
GoogleCloudPlatform/datacatalog-connectors-bi
May 2020 - Feb 2022
Sample code with integration between Data Catalog and BI data sources.
Contributions:76 reviews, 82 commits, 86 PRs in 1 year 9 months
data-catalogpythongcpmetadata-managementmetadata
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