Mat Balez
Product Manager at Spiral
West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolMat Balez is a product leader and founder with 11+ years building impactful technology in health-tech, education, consumer, and mapping—most notably co-founding Cityblock Health and launching Commons, a care-delivery platform that helped the company raise over $900M. He blends startup grit and big-tech scale from roles at Google (Glass, Local Search, Mobile Maps) and Flatiron School to lead cross-functional product, design, and engineering teams. After stepping away to be a full-time parent, he returned to product work focused on bitcoin at Spiral, signaling an appetite for hard technical domains and emergent markets. Trained as an electrical engineer with an M.Sc. in Management Science, he combines quantitative rigor with human-centered product instincts and a track record of turning complex systems into operational platforms. Based in West Vancouver, he advises and invests across health-tech, crypto, and AI, bringing operator experience to early-stage ventures.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc. Management Science, M.Sc. Management Science at Queen's University
French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (7)
bitcoin10
flatiron10
usability8
governance5
nostr5
project-management5
ruby4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
matbalez/Guide
Jun 2025 - Jan 2026
A free, open-source community resource for designers, developers and others working on non-custodial bitcoin products.
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
matbalez/lexebot
May 2026 - May 2026
Contributions:2 releases, 25 pushes in 16 days
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