Summary
Tom Matthews is a technology manager and hands-on software leader with nearly two decades of experience delivering large-scale systems across cloud, public health, research, and consumer domains. He has led teams at AWS and Just Eat Takeaway to build integrations and data-collection platforms used by thousands of customers and to scale delivery services by orders of magnitude. At the Public Health Agency of Canada he combined management and deep technical work to shepherd the open-source IRIDA genomics platform, bridging bioinformatics research and production-grade engineering. Known for improving team processes and design rigor, he oscillates effectively between individual-contributor craftsmanship and formal leadership roles. Based in Winnipeg, he brings a rare mix of domain breadth—from HPC bioinformatics pipelines to global logistics APIs—and a track record of mentoring teams toward predictable, high-quality outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science (B.C.Sc.) (Honours), Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science (B.C.Sc.) (Honours), Computer Science at University of Manitoba