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.
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."
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.
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
Company Description
BeCode offers free 7-month trainings in IT, enabling motivated people to start a career as developers, and companies find the talents they need.
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
Company Description
Armada activates the autonomy and amplifies the voices of groups & initiatives making society move forward. #digitaltransition
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
Company Description
JS - Journalistes Solidaires is a collaborative, user-friendly and efficient fact-checking editorial team, bringing together journalists, experts and citizens. The Journalistes Solidaires adventure was born at the initiative of Julien Cazenave during the Covid-19 health crisis. From a core group of professionals and students, the group was able to organize itself to set up a platform open to all.
Womenpreneur, Brussels-based organisation, was founded in 2016, and since its establishment has reached thousands of women and convened more than 20 global initiatives across Belgium and MENA region, to drive visibility, social impact, and resources for women in the ecosystem and beyond.
