Matus Faro
Founder at Upwave
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMatus Faro is a founder and principal software engineer with 13 years of experience building high-performance distributed systems, big data platforms, and resilient architectures. He has led engineering and anti-abuse efforts at messaging and infrastructure companies (Kik, LinkedIn) and founded multiple startups (Smotana, ClearFlask) that bridge product needs with scalable technical design. Comfortable both as a hands-on architect and an operator, he has held senior roles from automation lead at BlackBerry to lead architect at AND Global and now splits time between founding ventures and principal engineering at Upwave. Based in Old Toronto, he combines deep systems expertise from his McMaster software engineering background with a curiosity for hard problems that keeps him continuously learning. A less obvious strength is his track record of moving between anti-spam, infrastructure, and startup product domains—demonstrating rare cross-domain adaptability.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
B.Eng., Software Engineering & Embedded Systems, B.Eng., Software Engineering & Embedded Systems at McMaster University
English, Slovak
Github Skills (183)
testing10
maven-plugin10
terraform10
infrastructure10
gradle-plugin10
hosting10
ansible-role10
jackson10
product-development10
boto10
aws-cloud10
typescript10
cloud-infrastructure10
binding10
gson10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
datasprayio/aws-cdk-4j
Aug 2022 - Mar 2024
Define and deploy CDK applications using Java and Maven
Contributions:18 releases, 25 reviews, 59 PRs in 1 year 8 months
javacdkmaven
datasprayio/dataspray
Apr 2023 - Dec 2024
Contributions:19 releases, 4 PRs, 263 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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