Matias Crivolotti
Engineering Leader · 15+ Years Building Scalable Systems
About
Engineering Manager & Architect with 15+ years of experience, including 8+ years at PayPal driving technical excellence in high-scale fintech environments. Proven track record in people management and leading high-performance teams while remaining deeply hands-on. Passionate about technical mentorship, code quality, and fostering engineering culture.
Spanish (Native)Hebrew (Native)English (Fluent)
Experience
- Lead a cross-functional team of 6 engineers (Frontend, Backend, Support) building PayPal's experimentation platform and AI-powered sales prospecting tools
- Foster high-performance team culture through mentorship, career development, and regular feedback
- Collaborate with Product Managers and stakeholders to influence product strategy and align engineering roadmap with company objectives
- Led end-to-end UI/UX redesign of experimentation platform, improving usability and visual consistency
- Introduced AI capabilities to internal lead generation tools used by global sales teams
- Led technical design docs and conducted thorough code reviews across the team
- Architected and developed a cloud-native third-party data integration platform using microservices architecture, ensuring scalability and resilience
- Owned CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as team DevOps lead
- Introduced streamlined dev lifecycle processes and sprint execution standards
- Contributed to feature planning and documentation of the experimentation platform
- Built internal web tools for big data teams
- Created and maintained an internal React UI library
- Helped create and maintain the default PayPal template for React applications
- Lead frontend developer for all company-facing platforms
- Built data visualization dashboards and mentored interns
- Developed internal tools, blogs, CMS, and test automation frameworks
- Created the open-source Android test automation tool Magneto
- Led development of Firefox OS Notes app with Evernote API integration
Tech Stack
JavaScriptTypeScriptNode.jsGoPythonPHPHTMLCSSGraphQLReactAngularJSPostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBCassandraAWSGCPDockerJenkinsArgoCDHarnessCI/CD
Skills
Leadership & Management
Team BuildingPeople ManagementStrategic PlanningPerformance ManagementCross-functional LeadershipHigh-Performance Teams
Communication
Technical PresentationsCode ReviewsCross-team CollaborationStakeholder Management
Problem Solving
System ArchitectureProcess OptimizationDecision MakingTechnical Design
Innovation & Strategy
Process ImprovementTool DevelopmentBest PracticesProduct Strategy
Project Management
Agile MethodologiesSprint PlanningRoadmap Execution