# Flávio Mendes — Engineering Leadership & Distributed Systems

> Engineering Manager at Workday leading the distributed execution platform running 1.5B+ customer integrations annually. Based in Dublin, Ireland.

## Overview
Flávio Mendes is a Brazilian software engineering leader based in Dublin, Ireland, with over 18 years of production experience across banking, telecommunications, ERP platforms, and enterprise cloud systems.

## Current Role
- **Engineering Manager at Workday** (July 2022 — Present, Dublin, Ireland)
- Leads the Distributed Systems engineering team that designs, builds, and operates Workday’s multi-tenant integration execution platform.
- Platform throughput: 1.5+ billion asynchronous customer integration executions annually.
- Technical focus: high scale, dynamic backpressure, noisy-neighbor tenant isolation, scheduling resilience, and cultivating high-trust engineering teams.

## Flagship Projects & Open Source
- **Sagui** (https://sagui.flaviojmendes.com): Touch-friendly creative coding playground where kids build games and animations; includes a Teacher Studio for classroom missions.
- **Dinamos.net** (https://dinamos.net): Distributed systems mastery hub featuring 15+ interactive simulators (Paxos, Raft, Leaky Bucket, Caches) and an in-browser architecture editor.
- **Trilha Info** (https://trilha.info): Community-curated roadmaps in Portuguese for breaking into technology (800+ GitHub stars).
- **Periodic AI** (https://periodicai.flaviojmendes.com): Interactive periodic table categorizing modern LLM concepts, RAG architectures, and agentic workflows.
- **Home-Seek** (https://github.com/flaviojmendes/home-seek): Node.js automated property monitoring engine for Ireland.

## Core Principles
1. Build things. Ship the imperfect MVP.
2. The best architecture is the one your team understands.
3. Failure is the highest-yield investment in engineering.
4. Scale people before you scale infrastructure.

## Links & Contact
- Website: https://flaviojmendes.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/flaviojmendes
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/flaviojmendes
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/flaviojmendes
- Email: flaviojmendes@gmail.com