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Anderson Matos

builds platforms that engineers love, ships AI that regulators trust.

Distinguished Engineer at Capital One Canada. Twenty years translating executive strategy into distributed systems — customer identity, AI platforms, and the libraries underneath them, with audit controls attached.

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Distinguished Engineer
— AI & Platforms
Capital One Canada
EN · PT · .NET · AI
By the numbers

Outcomes, not outputs

$3M+
Annual savings
Engineering Capitalization program, tax-compliant, audit-ready.
99.99%
CIAM availability
Through tax season and peak trading events. Complete SIEM integration. Advanced MFA risk detection.
10,000+
Downstream services
Impacted and instrumented by libraries and guidelines I authored.
400+
Engineers influenced
Across 50+ teams, globally distributed.
30%+
Faster time to production
AI-augmented SDLC, processes and infrastructure improvements across the org.
20+ yrs
Shipping in production
Customer facing applications, platform, DevEx, autonomous agents, policies, governance, training and mentoring.

I own the boring infrastructure that makes the exciting stuff possible

Anderson Matos
ANDERSON · L · MATOS 2026

I work at the seam between executive strategy and distributed systems. At Capital One Canada I drive technology quality, AI adoption at high quality and velocity, and security across engineering in a regulated financial services business.

Before that, at Questrade, I owned enterprise AI architecture and spent years on Customer IAM, building identity infrastructure that protects millions of accounts and multi-billion-dollar assets. I treat platforms as products: success metrics, adoption, unit economics, developer experience, not just uptime.

I also talk about this work publicly, mentor engineers across 50+ teams, and advise on everything from threat modeling to AI-augmented SDLC. My deepest technical roots are in .NET, and I consume AI tooling the way other people drink coffee.

Off-hours

Photography, 3D puzzles and scale models, gaming, anime. I like systems with parts you can touch.

A 20-year outcome-oriented journey

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AI
Platform / Cloud
CIAM / Identity
Other
Distinguished Engineer
Capital One Canada
Aug 2026 — Present
  • Drive technology quality across engineering — standards, practice, and the systems that enforce them.
  • Scale AI adoption with quality and velocity intact, not traded against each other.
  • Raise the security bar on how software is designed, built, and shipped.
  • Enterprise architecture leadership in a regulated financial services business.
  • AI-augmented SDLC: agentic tooling in real engineering work, with human gates.
  • Platform-as-product discipline — adoption, developer experience, unit economics.
  • Mentoring and technical community building across engineering.
Senior Principal AI Engineer
Questrade Financial Group
Feb 2026 — Aug 2026
  • Own enterprise AI architecture for a regulated platform serving thousands of employees.
  • AI-augmented SDLC across hundreds of engineers — 30% faster to production, audit controls intact.
  • Engineering Capitalization delivered $3M/yr in savings, tax-compliant.
  • External speaking on architecture, DevOps, engineering leadership.
  • Autonomous coding agents (OpenSWE, DeepAgents) operating on internal tooling with human gates.
  • MCP integration strategy across the enterprise — governed tool access for LLMs.
  • AI Gateway governance: cost attribution, policy, audit trail.
Senior Principal Cloud Platform Engineer
Questrade Financial Group
Apr 2025 — Feb 2026
  • Led cloud platform architecture for a fleet of 10,000+ services.
  • Set the AI + platform strategy that became the foundation for enterprise rollout.
  • Introduced platform-as-product discipline: DX, adoption, unit economics.
  • Shared library program: security + observability baked in, rolled across the fleet.
  • API catalog with OpenAPI + AsyncAPI standards across 50+ teams.
  • Cost + capacity modeling for platform services.
Senior Principal Software Engineer
Questrade Financial Group
Mar 2023 — May 2025
  • Principal architect for Customer IAM — 99.99% SLA through tax season and peak trading.
  • Led modernization from legacy monolith to service-mesh CIAM with OIDC and SAML at the edge.
  • Authorization model: fine-grained, audited, cacheable.
  • Cross-org standards for CIAM, Customer Lifecycle, Document Management.
  • On-call model redesign: from "page everyone" to targeted runbooks.
  • Onboarding for new teams cut from weeks to days.
  • Incident taxonomy + retro discipline adopted organization-wide.
Principal Software Engineer
Questrade Financial Group
Nov 2020 — Mar 2023
  • Authored backend + security architecture adopted by 50+ teams.
  • Founded security and backend communities of practice.
  • Reference architectures and golden paths for new services.
  • Partnered with security on paved-road software controls.
Senior Software Engineer
Questrade Financial Group
Aug 2018 — Nov 2020
  • Rebuilt the customer identity core (OIDC/SAML) for scale and reliability.
  • Pioneered microservices architecture; tens of thousands of concurrent requests without degradation.
  • Introduced observability baseline for the identity stack.
  • Mentored tens of teams to understand security, OAuth and CIAM.
Senior Software Engineer
CTC Franchising
2017 — 2018
  • Introduced a real-time, event-driven retail system disconnected from the legacy COBOL platform.
  • Lifted reliability from 80% to 95%+ while business kept running.
  • Automated finance processes, delivering over 50% fewer errors and rework.
  • Brazilian fiscal document (NFe, NFCe) integration.
  • Improved checkout efficiency and sales experience
  • Designed a full replacement to the entire legacy COBOL platform.
Head of Technology (CTO)
Nacional Soft
2015 — 2021 (advisory from 2017)
  • Delivered software for financial institutions, mining, retail, logistics, and labour unions in Brazil.
  • Improved legal and privacy guardrails to meet regulator requirements
  • Implemented MPS.BR (equivalent of CMMI) to enhance software processes
  • Improved customer experience end-to-end
  • Advisory role from 2017 onward, during overlap with later positions.
Director of Engineering
Nacional Soft
2010 — 2015
  • Delivered software for financial institutions, mining, retail, logistics, and labour unions in Brazil.
  • Implemented MPS.BR (equivalent of CMMI) to enhance software processes
  • Improved customer experience end-to-end
Technical Leader
Nacional Soft
2006 — 2010
  • Comamnded both engineering and customer support teams to deliver the next generation systems for labour unions and health care
  • Improved legal and privacy guardrails to meet regulator requirements
  • Implemented MPS.BR (equivalent of CMMI) to enhance software processes
  • Modernized stacks across Clipper, Clarion and Java into .NET for scalability and resilience.

Success and ownership

A non-exhaustive map of systems I have built and/or owned. Click any card for context.

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Stack & practice

AI & Platforms
AI platform architecture · Autonomous agents · MCP · LLM integration & governance · AI-augmented SDLC/ADLC · OpenSWE · DeepAgents · LangSmith Fleet · N8N
Architecture
Enterprise architecture · Large-scale distributed systems · Microservices · Modular monolith · Event-driven · API design · OpenAPI · AsyncAPI
Cloud & Infra
GCP · Hybrid & multi-cloud · Kubernetes · KEDA · Docker · IaC · FinOps · DevSecOps
Languages & Stack
.NET · .NET Framework · TypeScript · Node · Python · MySQL · SQL Server · Redis · Datadog · OpenTelemetry
Security & Governance
CIAM · OAuth · OIDC · SAML · EIAM · SCIM · IGA · Threat Modeling · Secure SDLC · AML · PIPEDA · OSFI · PCI-DSS · SIEM
Leadership
Executive advisory · Cross-enterprise influence · Mentoring · Public speaking · Platform-as-product

What I speak about

Architecture, DevOps and engineering leadership — at conferences, inside engineering orgs, and in workshops for founders and startup teams. I speak externally representing the companies I work for.

Topics
  • AI-augmented SDLC in regulated environments
  • CIAM at enterprise scale — the product view
  • Platform-as-product — making adoption a metric
  • Governing autonomous agents with audit controls
  • Threat modeling as a practice, not a ceremony
Past venues
DevOps Toronto · FUMSOFT · Assesspro-MG · GESCLA · SoftVelocity · Questrade
Audiences from startup founders to globally distributed engineering orgs.
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Decks and writing

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Talk Jul 2026 · DevOps Toronto · Questrade, Toronto

Human In The Lead

Why the AI trust gap is a harness gap — and the ladder from "in the loop" to "in the lead". Presented to the DevOps Toronto community.

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Article Jul 2026

Human In The Lead

Developers use AI more and trust it less. The trust gap is a harness gap — the distance between what your seniors know and what your systems encode.

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