Ricardo Mendes
Administrator Developer
Porto, Porto, Portugal
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Top SchoolRicardo Mendes is an experienced Administrator Developer with 17 years building and maintaining web applications, particularly in Ruby and Ember.js front-ends. Based in Porto, he combines hands-on engineering with community leadership—organizing Porto Codes, cohosting a developer podcast, and contributing deep improvements to high-profile OSS projects like ember.js, ember-cli, and Rubinius. His open-source work ranges from core framework fixes (routing, Handlebars, CLI) to tooling and documentation, and he has a knack for cross-cutting full-stack fixes from browser UI to language core methods. A longtime freelancer and former senior engineer at Mainmatter, he pairs pragmatic product-minded engineering with an unusual background in music, which informs his collaborative and creative approach to problem solving.
17 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Music, Music at Valentim de CarvalhoLicentiate degree, Computer Software Engineering, Licentiate degree, Computer Software Engineering at Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto
Portuguese, English, French, Spanish
Stackoverflow
6,557reputation
157kreached
154answers
0questions
ruby
top-5%
Github Skills (69)
url-routing10
programming-language10
testing10
ember-cli10
ruby10
javascript-framework10
emberjs10
autocode10
ember10
linting10
refactoring10
web-development10
windows-gui10
javascript10
autofill10
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
mustache/mustache
Feb 2014 - Sep 2022
Logic-less Ruby templates.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 194 commits, 43 PRs in 8 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Ricardo primarily contributed to bug fixes and documentation updates within the Ruby-based Mustache templating library. They addressed errors in lambda documentation, fixed trailing comma issues in the code, and updated the documentation to reflect the latest features. Additionally, they made code refactoring changes by replacing `.inject` calls with `.reduce` and implemented various code improvements.
logiclogic-lessruby
emberjs/website
Oct 2013 - Feb 2019
Source for emberjs.com
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:305 commits, 337 PRs, 422 pushes in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Ricardo primarily contributed to the website's front-end development, addressing layout issues and making the site responsive. They modified the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code, refactoring the website structure. The user's work included making the legal and sponsors pages responsive.
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