Ricardo Méndez
Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Netlify
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolRicardo Méndez is a Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years’ experience designing, deploying and scaling high-traffic distributed systems, currently shaping infrastructure at Netlify. He has driven dramatic traffic growth and resilience improvements across roles—from leading massive datacenter migrations and CDN strategies at Tuenti to managing Cassandra and Kafka services at Schibsted. Ricardo combines deep Linux and configuration-management expertise (Puppet, AWS, observability and canary deployments) with hands-on incident leadership and automation-first practices. Colleagues know him as a self-starter who translates operational constraints into pragmatic, documented solutions and mentors teams to own production services. He’s comfortable operating across the stack—networking, storage, delivery and mail systems—and has repeatedly turned performance profiling into measurable production gains. Based in Barcelona, he brings a proven record of making large-scale systems both faster and more reliable while keeping a keen eye for operational detail.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
CCNA MCSA CCSP AWLANFE, CCNA MCSA CCSP AWLANFE at Academia LugonesAssociate's Degree in Systems Administration, Associate's Degree in Systems Administration at Seresco Formación
English, Spanish
Github Skills (115)
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ansible9
faraday9
python9
ruby-client9
ssh9
spinnaker9
repair9
continuous-delivery8
automation8
dry-rb8
messaging8
velocity8
datadog8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ricbartm/ricardo.bartolo.me
Aug 2018 - Dec 2023
My personal website using Hugo
Contributions:8 PRs, 11 pushes, 9 branches in 5 years 5 months
hugohugo-theme
ricbartm/sensu-community-plugins
Jun 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:9 pushes, 2 branches in 9 months
handlerssensusharingplugin
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