Thiago Mata
Technology Leader
- Sydney, Australia · Australian Citizen
- +61 413 065 180
- thiago.henrique.mata@gmail.com
- thiagomata.com
- linkedin.com/in/thiagomata
- github.com/thiagomata
- orcid.org/0009-0002-7366-939X
Technology leader who connects engineering to business outcomes. Over twenty years across startups, ad-tech at billions of transactions, and regulated banking have shaped how I choose what to build, what not to build, and where to invest, and how I lead teams that decide well today and better tomorrow, always favouring clarity over cleverness and reliability over novelty.
Experience
Lead the team delivering new banking products, reshaping how it builds them and cutting production incidents through testing, observability, graceful degradation, and clearer code.
Built the identity and attribution systems and led bot detection, a real-time service on the critical path of a platform processing billions of transactions.
Migrated core data services to Google Cloud, making them faster and cheaper and strengthening the company's position in its acquisition.
Hired and led engineering across three offices in three states, from concept to the first production-ready products. Reported strategy to investors and shaped the team structure and career paths that prepared the company for its merger with Pinion.
Specified and built the first server for a device that turns any car into a smart car, syncing car data with partners and sending maintenance recommendations to owners.
High-availability public systems (E-MEC, Revalida), credit portfolio transfers, and six years teaching web development.
Research
Preprints on Zenodo, 2026, with machine-checked proofs. All articles
Awards
Skills
- Leadership
- Technical strategy, hiring, people management, investor reporting, distributed teams, career paths
- Cloud & delivery
- AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, CloudFormation, CI/CD
- Data
- Spark, Apache Beam, Kafka, BigQuery, Redshift, Postgres, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis
- Languages
- Scala, Java, Python, Go, JavaScript
- Verification
- Stainless (Scala), Dafny
Education
Certifications
Also parallel and functional programming in Scala (EPFL), data science and machine learning (Johns Hopkins, Duke, Stanford). All certificates
Languages
Portuguese (native), English (fluent)