Mario Mendez

Experience

2024 - Present

CTO, Co-founder

Graduated from dev to co-founder. My focus is still on building a great product, as well as growing a team I'd want to be a part of.

Road to Seed Round
April 2022–2023

Lead Developer

Joined Evotrux as a full-stack developer/devops engineer/whatever hat is needed for the day. Evotrux is a B2B freight marketplace helping shippers and carriers work together — no middleman required.

Lessons from a successful(ish) mvp startup launch
May 2021 - April 2022

Software Developer · AGCO

Worked as a Software Developer at AGCO Winnipeg (formerly 151 Research). My work focused on full-stack dev, cloud, embedded Linux and IoT. Worked with great tech and even cooler people. Also got the chance to live through a startup's glory days and what happens after acquisition.

May 2021

B.Sc. Computer Science · University of Manitoba

Graduated from the University of Manitoba with a B.Sc. in Computer Science, Co-op.

June 2020 - September 2020

Research & Technology Editor · The Manitoban

As a Junior Research & Technology editor at the Manitoban, I wrote articles about local and university events related to research and technology.

January 2020 - May 2021

Software Developer Intern · 151 Research

Worked as a Software Developer intern at 151 Research doing full-stack development. Learnt full-stack development with a dash of IoT and embedded Linux.

November 2019

IROS · Robot music

Earned second place along with the Autonomous Agents Lab team members at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) where we developed a musical experience with two humanoid robots.

The first Canadian robot rock band
April 2019 - November 2019

R&D Developer · Wawanesa Insurance

Interned at the Wawanesa Innovation Lab. Worked on multiple full-stack POCs across different technologies, including Blockchain and AR.

September 2019

Hack the North

Selected to participate in Hack the North 2019. Built a decentralized application to allow journalists and activists to share their work in an uncensorable and tamper-proof platform using Ethereum, React and the IPFS.

August 2018

FIRA · Taiwan

Participated in FIRA (Federation of International Robot-soccer Association) robotics competition in Taiwan. Participated along with U of M Snobots team. Won archery category gold!

June 2018

RoboCup

Participated in RoboCup robotics competition. Earned first place in technical challenge category with U of M Snobots team.

March 2018

AUTCup · Tehran

Participated in AUTCup robotics competition at Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT) in Tehran. Earned first place overall in HuroCup category adult size along with U of M's snobots team.

2017

Autonomous Agents Lab

Joined the U of M Autonomous Agents Lab under Dr. Anderson and Dr. Meng-Cheng Lau. The experiences of belonging to the lab were amongst the most important of my university education. I am forever grateful for the opportunity to work in that environment.

September 2016

A new chapter in Canada

Flew to Canada for the first time in my life to pursue a degree in Computer Science.