About
Instructor at UWI St. Augustine. Passionate about building educational tools, organizing developer communities, and promoting AI and HCI in learning.
This site, hosted at mendez.codes, showcases my journey as an educator, software project lead, and community builder in the Caribbean tech space.
Work
- Instructor – UWI St. Augustine
Teaching Web Tech, HCI, and Software Engineering. - Project Manager – CCU
Lead development of platforms like BeUWI and Alumni Giving. - Internship Coordinator
Structured internship experiences for CS undergrads. - Outreach
Organizing bootcamps, school visits, and student mentorship programs.
Projects
- BeUWI – beuwi.app
- Alumni Giving Platform – giveuwista.app
Communities
| Community | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| GDG Port of Spain | Lead organizer for workshops, DevFests & AI/Cloud sessions. | View |
| Dev.to | Moderator & contributor for dev community and content. | Profile |
| ICPC Trinidad & Tobago | Country Director & team coach for regional competitions. | Visit |
| TTLab | Contributor to research and educational software in AI. | Learn More |
| Google Dev Profile | Recognized community builder in the Caribbean dev scene. | g.dev/snickdx |
Talks & Presentations
- UWI 5 Islands Conference on Enrolment and Student Performance – Ministry of Education, 2025
- Prompt Engineering for Teachers – Ministry of Education, 2025
- DevFest Port of Spain: From Web Dev to AI – 2024
- Vertex AI Model Garden: GDG + iGovTT, 2024
Research
Author of RevBoMIR, a Boolean model-based requirement search tool published at ACM SIGIR 2019 in Paris.