Matt Wright
Chief Technology Officer at Opio
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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Top SchoolMatt Wright is a seasoned technology leader and founder with 12 years of senior experience building product-focused engineering teams and delivering AI-driven, cloud-native systems. Currently CTO at Opio (and formerly CTO at Montoux), he combines deep expertise in NLP, machine learning ethics, and high-performance cloud compute to accelerate actuarial and financial workflows 100x faster and cheaper. He has founded and scaled startups, raised seed funding, and shipped production ML products—from trademark prediction tools for law firms to a Model-Copilot that helps actuaries interrogate models with natural language. Known for blending product discovery with explainable ML, he speaks and consults on fairness and bias in AI, making ethical model behavior a practical engineering priority. Based in Wellington, New Zealand, Matt pairs fintech-grade engineering discipline from roles at Deutsche Bank and RBC with a founder’s focus on solving a single real user problem.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Tauranga Boys' CollegeBachelor of commerce, Computer Science and Statistics, Bachelor of commerce, Computer Science and Statistics at University of Auckland
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Github Skills (51)
python10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
mojo10
data-science9
modular9
ruby-wrapper9
tensorflow9
neural-network9
ai8
deep-neural-networks8
packaging8
ml8
programming-language8
max7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
StitchedCode/bullhorn-rest
Jun 2015 - Feb 2019
Contributions:11 PRs, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
ruby-wrapperapibullhornrubyrest
opioinc/doc-chat
Apr 2023 - May 2024
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 42 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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