Mauricio Mota
Head Of Product at Paays
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMauricio Mota is a product leader with 8+ years of experience building and scaling fintech and B2B2C platforms in regulated environments, currently serving as Head of Product at Paays. He operates at the intersection of product, engineering, and go-to-market, translating complex technical capabilities into clear value propositions and market narratives that drive adoption and trust. Mauricio has progressed through hands-on roles in integrations, API support, and product management at Flinks, giving him deep operational knowledge of developer-facing systems and platform tradeoffs. He brings a product-led strategic lens to company-level decisions—prioritizing where to focus, when to build platforms versus point solutions, and how to design compounding systems. Comfortable in ambiguity, he combines rigorous executional ownership with attention to craftsmanship and usability, often working directly with sales, leadership, and customers from idea through adoption. Based in Old Toronto with an engineering background from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, he blends technical roots in systems administration with product strategy in fintech.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Engenharia Eletrônica e de Computação, Engenharia Eletrônica e de Computação at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
English, French, Portuguese
Github Skills (8)
api5
rest-api4
nodejs4
rest4
collaboration2
api-platform2
postman2
lifecycle1
Github contributions (5)
maulmota/ferrao_bot
Dec 2018 - Jun 2019
Contributions:15 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
flinkstech/flinksconnect-integration-demo
Feb 2019 - Jun 2019
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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