Chris Mendes
VP, Engineering

Chris, born in Sao Paulo, grew up in South Florida and Utah, and graduated from Boston University. He was the advertising manager for Leafaholic Media from 2007 to 2010, with clients like Adobe, HP, and Vonage, among others. He was a web developer, project manager, full stack engineer, and later CEO of 2Leaf during his 15 years at the company working for clients like UCSB, USC, Vega Coffee, and many others. During his tenure, he also consulted as a full stack engineer at Seattle-based domain name registrar Name Bark, as the lead IT server infrastructure and security consultant for Santa Barbara-based aerospace company Umbra Lab, and as the lead developer for Santa Barbara-based procurement start-up Spend Logic. His experience is in security, server infrastructure, front- and back-end development, UI-based web and app design, and programming architecture.