Agustin Mendez

Agustin Mendez is a programmer, inventor and furniture maker. In 2008 he started contributing to open-source projects for an Argentinian game: Argentum Online, in 2009 he released open-sourced the first DirectX8 version of the game.

In 2011 he joined Soflex, a company focused on security products and location-based solutions, in the company he worked on tracking systems that are now deployed in Antarctica helping scientific expeditions and are part of many 911 emergency systems in Argentina.

In 2016 he joined MuleSoft as a Software Engineer and developed many internal tools, prototypes and part of the programming language DataWeave.

In 2018 he joined Decentraland as a Technical Leader, to create a novel gaming platform owned by its users.

In 2019 he started working as a Technical Manager at Nubank, at the moment, the fastest growing digital bank in Latin America, he was in charge of training new hires in Clojure and functional concepts, also in charge of the technical management of a new vertical of the business.

Agustin is the creator of the Lys Programming Language, this blog, several open source projects several pieces of furniture and a lot of interesting things behind NDAs.