IT-CA-IR-2026-66-LD

Nuno Mendes

Full-stack engineer across CERN controls software, high-traffic production web services, team delivery, and AI-assisted development.

8+years across CERN, Breitling, and product builds

Real HWcontrols hardware, lab context & robot competitions

1M+daily accesses in production services

Leaddelivery supervision and hiring

AI Harnessesenhancing agentic tooling

My trajectory

8+ years across CERN and production platforms

2014

BSc Biomedical Engineering

Instituto Superior Técnico

2017

MSc Electrical and Computer Engineering

Instituto Superior Técnico

2018

Junior Software Engineer

TE-EPC-CCS · CERN

2021

Full Stack Developer

SY-EPC-CCS · CERN

2024

Senior Full Stack Engineer

Breitling Switzerland

2025

Backend Team Lead

Breitling Switzerland · since 2025

Junior Software Engineer · TE-EPC-CCS

Modern controls tooling

Controls migration

Before

Perl

Perl scripts

After

Python

Python workflows

Maintainable workflowsshared patterns for controls development

Lab context preservedhardware setup stayed part of the implementation

FGC hardware unit

Controls hardware module

HpmLab bench with controls hardware

GPIB USB adapter

Keysight measurement instrument

FortLogs · scale and architecture

FortLogs architecture

Original FortLogs architecture diagram

Implementation stack

Runtime Python Log service code

API FastAPI HTTP interface

Live channel WebSockets Streaming updates

Storage PostgreSQL Log data store

ORM SQLAlchemy Database access

1 TBlog data capacity target

WORMwrite once, read many access pattern

HAavailable on the technical network

AccessCERN RBAC and Keycloak OAuth2

FortLogs · real adoption

FortLogs adoption

FortLogs application

FortLogs search view

PowerSpy integration

Where it was reused

TRIUMF

SOLEIL Synchrotron

FGC Commander · operations UI

FGC Commander rebuilt for daily operation

Legacy FGC Commander interface — Before

After

Vite

Build Vite Fast dev flow

Vue.js

Interface Vue Operator UI

Pinia

State Pinia Shared app state

Bootstrap

UI base Bootstrap Common controls

Chart.js

Data views Chart.js Trends and charts

FGC API · platform boundary

Typed APIs for controls

API FastAPI HTTP and WebSocket layer

Runtime Python Controls service code

ORM SQLAlchemy Database access

Models Pydantic Typed validation

Database Oracle Controls data store

Project lead · EPC tools containerization and orchestration

Leading platform delivery

Original Kubernetes deployment architecture diagram

Docker Compose

Package Docker Compose Service bundling

Kubernetes

Orchestrate Kubernetes Technical network runtime

Argo

Deliver Argo GitOps deployment

Backend Team Lead · Breitling Switzerland

Backend ownership at scale

Breitling ecommerce platform

Scribe · production AI tooling

SCRIBE - OPEN-SOURCE SKILLS MANAGER

Animated Scribe demo showing the setup wizard and skill manager interface — curl -fsSL https://gitlab.com/usescrolls/scribe/-/raw/main/scripts/install.sh | bash

Install Skills once. Sync across Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, and local agents.

Find Skills in Public & Private repositories GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, SSH, local paths, and zip URLs.

Manage Skill Groups With Workspaces Named skill sets such as web-dev or data-eng, switched per context.

Symlink sync Install once and distribute to every supported local agent.

CLI plus desktop Command-line workflows and a Desktop app for browsing and setup.

Real users Colleagues and friends use it.

Community contributions

Engineering communication

Fast Web Application Development with FastAPI in EPC-CCSIndico contribution OP FGC Commander Hands OnHands-on session Midas, FortLogs and Python development at CCSEngineering talk Containerisation and Orchestration in the Technical NetworkEPC-CCS talk Kubernetes at SY-EPC-CCSIndico talk I Vibecoded a GBA Emulator and Got Banned from GitHubTechnical article

Closing

Ready to contribute at CERN

Pizza Cutter application preview

Browser utility Pizza Cutter

Cut sheets of paper and export the resulting pieces to single files in bulk.

Travel agent Rota

Your modern travel agent and guide.

Slime Ball game preview

Game Slime Ball

GBA emulator article preview

Swift GBA Emulator

FastAPI at CERN Introduced the framework in 2019.

FastAPI community reference