Ricardo Mendes
There is always a solution
Creative
Solution Oriented
Committed
Passionate
Skilled
44 years old
Driving License
Brussels Belgium
Professional Status
Employed
Unavailable
About Me
My name is Ricardo Mendes, I love all things digital, my passion is to share my knowledge through trainings, coaching and advising.
I love to work on solutions for problems, even more when they are related to real challenges facing our societies, democracy, climate or migration, I'm at my best by joining a team or an organization that wants to make an impact for a better society.
I love to work on solutions for problems, even more when they are related to real challenges facing our societies, democracy, climate or migration, I'm at my best by joining a team or an organization that wants to make an impact for a better society.
Middleware Engineer
FGTB-ABVV
Since November 2023
Full-time
Brussels
Belgium
- Technology Specialist at ABVV-FGTB
- At ABVV-FGTB, a union dedicated to advocating for workers' rights and engaging in collective bargaining, I have focused on enhancing our IT infrastructure and application delivery. Over the past six months, my primary role has involved mastering various cutting-edge technologies, including Openshift, Kubernetes, and Docker. A significant part of my responsibilities has been the strategic migration of Java applications from legacy environments—such as IBM Datapowers and PureApp systems, as well as Windows servers—to modern, containerized applications deployed on our VMware Linux infrastructure and Openshift Kubernetes clusters. This transition is pivotal in optimizing our operational efficiencies and ensuring robust, scalable application performance.
Solution Architect at OSINTukraine.com
OSINTukraine.com
Since February 2022
Volunteer Work
Brussels
- The OSINTukraine initiative is a specialized endeavor dedicated to open-source intelligence (OSINT) pertaining to Ukraine. Its primary objectives are the collection, archiving, translation, analysis, and dissemination of critical information related to the ongoing conflict with Ukraine.
- Utilizing advanced OSINT techniques, the project offers in-depth insights into current events, potential security threats, and other relevant issues concerning Ukraine. This is achieved by monitoring numerous Russian telegram channels, followed by meticulous filtering, categorization, and archiving of data streams. These efforts are further enhanced by various OSINT analysis projects incubated within the initiative."
- Current sub-projects
- War crimes archive
- Drones research
- Location related alerts system
- War crimes archive
BeCode DevOps Training 2021-2022
beCode
September 2021
to March 2022
Full-time
Brussels
Belgium
- Vagrant and Ansible "infrastructure as code" to deploy Wordpress, Nginx and Redis cache system with integrated TLS certificates renewals
Docker Swarm to manage a small cluster of web apps, Funkwhale, Redis, Nginx - Gitlab CI/CD with SonarCube
Jenkins and security audit with SonarCube
Build, Release, Deploy Petclinic with Jenkins - Python Basics
- Networking Basics by learning the fundamentals of networks
- Monitoring 101 by learning the base of infrastructure monitoring and introduction to Prometheus, Grafana
CTO
DigitYser
October 2018
to March 2020
Full-time
Brussels
Belgium
- Hosting Infrastructure
- Integrations with digital marketing tools
- Automation
- Design & Conception
- Maintenance
- Integrations with third party tools
Solution Architect
Armada.digital
May 2016
to 2021
Freelancer
Brussels
Belgium
- Armada.digital consultancy mission is to amplify the visibility of good causes by providing custom communication & collaboration solutions to empower individuals & ethical business.
- IT Maintenance
- Hosting
- Digital Transition
FactChecking/Disinformation Monitoring
Journalistes Solidaires
March 2020
to May 2020
Volunteer Work
Brussels
Belgium
- backend cloudron/docker simple Wordpress with custom post type to adapt wordpress for a factchecking workflow putting in place monitoring disinformation and other factchecking initiatives to fight covid19 disinformation
Technical Event Manager
DigitYser
October 2018
to March 2020
Full-time
- the digital flagship of tech communities in Brussels
- Livestreaming
- Sound technician
- Video recording
- Photos
- Event interactions
- Slido Integration
Event Manager
European Data Innovation Hub
February 2019
to March 2020
Full-time
Brussels
Belgium
- Annual event of the Data Science Community of Belgium
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning - Hosting Infrastructure
- Integrations with digital marketing tools
- Communication
- Digital Marketing
- Design & Conception
- Maintenance
Technical Advisor WomenPreneur-Initiative
WomenPreneur-Initiative
2019
to 2020
Volunteer Work
Brussels
Belgium
- Hosting Infrastructure
- Email / Security
- Wordpress
- Mailchimp
- Mautic
Technical Advisor BookVillage
BookVillage
May 2019
to December 2019
Volunteer Work
Brussels
- Bootstrapping
- Hosting/Infrastructure
- Technical adviser
Technical Advisor Promote Ukraine
Promote Ukraine
January 2019
to January 2020
Freelancer
- Hosting Infrastructure
- Wordpress
- Mailchimp
- Monitoring about Ukraine
- Openshift
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Ansible
- Gitlab CI/CD
- Automation
- Monitoring
- Linux Administration
- System Administration
- On Premise Hosting
- Cloud Hosting
- Security
- Facilitation
- Mediation
- Spokesperson
- Brainstorming
- Prototyping
- Advising
- Ideation
- French
- English
- Portuguese
- Spanish
I have taken the chance to specialize myself with a 7 months DevOps training with the goal of exploring my next steps in this field, I have always liked managing servers and deploying and maintaining web applications, so this was a good opportunity to learn the basics in different cloud providers and learn the fundamentals of the development and delivery lifecycle.
Bachelor's degree in Management Information Technology
ISLA - Institutio Superior de Gestão e Tecnologia
1998
to July 2001
Curso Técnico Superior Profissional de Informática de Gestão
Basic Programming
Web Analytics
Systems Analysis and Design
Project Management
Information Assurance and Systems Security
Basic Programming
Web Analytics
Systems Analysis and Design
Project Management
Information Assurance and Systems Security
