Matthew Mascioni is a Head of Engineering with 12 years of experience building and operating back-end web products and infrastructure, currently leading engineering at Mycroft from Toronto. He brings a pragmatic, user-and-team-centered approach to system design, with deep expertise in Python (Flask, Django, Celery), relational and analytical datastores (Postgres, MySQL, ClickHouse), message brokers, and Kubernetes. Matthew has driven observability and reliability through tools like Datadog and Sentry and has hands-on experience integrating real-time IoT and time-series pipelines from his municipal and research work. He moved rapidly from Lead Engineer to Head of Engineering in 2026, reflecting a track record of technical leadership and delivery across startups and scale-stage teams. His background in chemical engineering and early lab work informs a data-driven, experimental mindset when solving complex production problems.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Chemical Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Chemical Engineering at University of Toronto
Contributions:18 PRs, 79 pushes, 20 branches in 1 year
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