I'M LEO, TECHNICAL LEADER & BUILDER

AI ENABLEMENT OBSERVABILITY SECURITY

Founder, fractional CTO, and hands-on technologist with 25+ years building and scaling systems that serve millions. I partner with teams to ship products, architect infrastructure, and turn complex ideas into working software.

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I help ambitious teams build what's next

Early-stage, mid-scale, or stuck — I help you move forward.

25+
Years of experience
Billions
Users served
Startup to Enterprise
Full range

Current Focus

Calliope AI

Calliope AI

A secure, AI-powered development workbench for teams that value engineering rigor. Multiple AI models, notebooks, code generation, RAG-powered data access, and SQL query generation. Built for professionals who keep humans in the loop.

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Veracall

Veracall

AI-powered communication and scheduling assistant. Smart call management, unified messaging, spam blocking, and voice-activated scheduling. For solo founders to remote teams who need control over their time.

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Boilerworks

Boilerworks

Production-ready templates and frameworks for shipping faster. Built by CONFLICT for teams who want to skip the boilerplate and get to building.

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CONFLICT

CONFLICT

A full-service engineering shop for teams that need to ship. Cloud operations, backend systems, mobile apps, AI/ML, and infrastructure for healthcare, ecommerce, and compliance-heavy industries. We deliver where it counts.

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Background

25+ years leading teams, building products, and architecting systems at scale. From founding startups to managing engineering orgs, I operate across the full stack. AWS Certified Solutions Architect and DevOps Engineer.

I build, I lead, I ship.
AI Enablement
AI Enablement
Building production AI systems and tools. RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, AI-assisted development. Helping teams adopt AI with engineering rigor.
Observability & AIOps
Observability & AIOps
Led Observability SRE at Wikimedia. Built monitoring and incident management practices at Backcountry and Grindr. AIOps for intelligent alerting and automation.
Cloud & Platform
Cloud & Platform
AWS, GCP, Azure since 2006. Certified Solutions Architect and DevOps Engineer. AWS and Google Partner. Kubernetes, Terraform, multi-region deployments.
Security & Compliance
Security & Compliance
InfoSec leadership, PCI compliance, vulnerability management. Built security organizations and led companies to first-time compliance.

Selected Work

Wikimedia Foundation - Global Infrastructure

Wikimedia Foundation - Global Infrastructure

Led SRE teams supporting Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects serving billions of requests. Drove incident response initiatives and infrastructure improvements with organization-wide impact.

Backcountry.com - Cloud Migration & Security

Backcountry.com - Cloud Migration & Security

Cut infrastructure budget from $14M to $8M over 5 years through cost optimization. Built security program from scratch with $1M budget. Led company to first-ever PCI compliance. Managed 34 engineers across TechOps and InfoSec.

Grindr - Scalable Backend Systems

Grindr - Scalable Backend Systems

Scaled platform from 400K to 15M accounts, 6K to 5M peak active users. Ran 2-3K instances serving millions of transactions per second. First SRE/Cloud engineer, built team of 4. Rebuilt messaging, location APIs, and core backend.

Leo Mata

Recent Experience

Founder, Calliope AI

Building secure AI development tools for teams that value engineering rigor. Multi-model access, notebooks, RAG-powered data queries, and AI-enabled workflows for professionals.

Managing Director, CONFLICT

Leading a distributed engineering team focused on AI enablement, cloud operations, observability, and security. Full-service delivery for healthcare, ecommerce, and enterprise clients.

SRE Manager, Wikimedia Foundation

Led Observability and Infrastructure Foundations SRE teams supporting Wikipedia. Drove incident response, AIOps initiatives, and large-scale platform reliability improvements.

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Cheetah Digital
Zonos
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Latest Blog Posts

What's Next: Regions, Cynefin, and Beyond
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posted by admin
November 25, 2025

What's Next: Regions, Cynefin, and Beyond

The Wardley Map PR is in draft, working through code review. Here’s what’s on the roadmap. Immediate: Regions The most requested feature. …

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Deep Dive: Anatomy of a Mermaid Diagram Type
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posted by admin
November 22, 2025

Deep Dive: Anatomy of a Mermaid Diagram Type

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Building the PR
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posted by admin
November 17, 2025

Building the PR

Time to actually build Wardley Map support for Mermaid. Here’s the journey. Understanding the Codebase Mermaid is a mature project. Before …

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