80% faster
Automated decisioning
Through credit-decisioning platform modernization.
Senior Product & Risk Technology Leader
I turn complex systems into reliable products that scale.
Omar Rodriguez, Ph.D. · Founder and Technical Builder
I’m a product leader, founder, and Ph.D.-trained engineer with experience modernizing credit-decisioning platforms, launching data-intensive capabilities, and building operational software from firsthand business needs.
Based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Selected impact
Measured outcomes across product, risk, and platform delivery
60%+ reduction
Decisioning-system downtime
Through platform troubleshooting and internal support.
80,000+
Credit applications supported
By scalable automated-decisioning capabilities.
50% faster
Time-to-market
For key credit-platform capabilities.
Where I add the most value
Roles and problems I’m best positioned for
Best-fit roles
- Senior Product Manager
- Risk Technology Manager
- Technical Product Lead
Problems I lead
- Data and decisioning platforms
- Platform modernization
- Operational software and workflow automation
Professional profile
Engineering discipline, translated into product leadership
My career has progressed from manufacturing and validation engineering through research, reliability engineering, risk technology, product leadership, and entrepreneurship.
For more than seven years, I have modernized credit-decisioning platforms in highly regulated banking environments. My work spans platform migrations, data integrations, automated testing, and cross-functional product delivery—connecting strategy with reliable execution at scale.
As a Ph.D.-trained engineer and co-founder of CleanAR Solutions, I combine product strategy, hands-on technical execution, and operational leadership. That background helps me investigate complex systems, find failure points, and turn firsthand operating needs into practical software and iterative product improvements.
Core capabilities
From strategy to systems in operation
Product Leadership
Roadmaps, platform modernization, launch readiness, and stakeholder alignment.
Risk and Decisioning
FICO Decision Modeler, FICO SRL/Blaze, scoring strategies, and regulated delivery.
Data and Technology
MongoDB, SQL, SAS, APIs, automated validation, and data reconciliation.
Technical Delivery
Code reviews, integration strategy, testing frameworks, and team enablement.
Entrepreneurship
0-to-1 product discovery, business operations, quoting, invoicing, and workflow design.
Engineering
Reliability, root-cause analysis, validation, research, and systems thinking.
Featured work
Products and platforms built around consequential problems
Three stories spanning entrepreneurial product development, platform transformation, and technical reliability.
01 · Entrepreneurial product
Co-Founder and CEO
Building a 0-to-1 operating platform from direct experience running a residential and commercial cleaning business in the Greater Toronto Area.
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Problem
Service businesses often manage quoting, scheduling, customers, employees, invoices, reminders, and reporting across disconnected tools and manual processes.
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Founder insight
Operating CleanAR directly provides continuous access to customer, dispatcher, field-team, and finance workflows.
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Product response
I designed and built an integrated platform around those firsthand operational needs while leading business strategy, customer acquisition, sales, quality assurance, and financial management.
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Verified capabilities
Connected workflows support customer management, quotes and invoices, bookings and calendars, employee activity, field check-in and check-out, reminders, reporting, and role-based dispatcher and finance administration.
Platform: React, Vite, Node.js, Express, MongoDB, Mongoose, and APIs.
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Founder advantage
The operating business creates an environment for direct discovery, validation, and iterative product improvement.
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Forward-looking context
The platform is being developed as an operating system for CleanAR’s own workflows, with potential to inform broader service-business tooling.
02 · Product leadership
Credit and Decisioning Platform Modernization
Lead product strategy and delivery for automated credit-adjudication capabilities across regulated banking portfolios.
Defined strategic data requirements and led integration strategy for five major retail- banking product launches, supporting launch readiness and post-launch analytics. As one contributor within cross-functional delivery, I developed FICO SRL decisioning functions and flows, conducted code reviews, automated MongoDB data extraction, and trained teams on FICO Decision Modeler and MongoDB Compass.
- Four unsecured product families migrated to FICO Decision Modeler
- Zero reported post-migration issues following the referenced transition
- Five major product launches supported through data and integration strategy
03 · Technical management and automation
Risk-Technology Automation and Reliability
Turned repeatable testing, reconciliation, and troubleshooting into internal capabilities.
Implemented customer-evaluation models and strategies across Canadian and Caribbean portfolios, including contributions to the bank’s first in-house risk-based scoring models. I led cross-functional technical delivery and developed an automated regression- testing framework using SAS and VBA that improved validation efficiency and reduced errors.
Migration validation
Led multi-source data reconciliation and built tools for rapid test-data preparation and analysis.
Platform reliability
Troubleshot FICO decisioning platforms and strengthened internal support, reducing reliance on external consultancy.
- 30+ models and strategies implemented through cross-functional delivery
- 60% faster deployments through reusable implementation practices
Selected technical builds
Supporting evidence in software, APIs, and data workflows
Earlier collaborative and independent builds that show hands-on technical range.
Sole-author backend evidence
- REST CRUD routes
- MongoDB data models
- Validation and error responses
Independent backend API
Nickless Socialize API
A sole-author API for managing users, thoughts, reactions, and friend relationships, built with Node.js, Express, MongoDB, and Mongoose.
Group full-stack build · Backend contributions
Travel Blog
A four-person full-stack project using Node.js, Express, MySQL, Sequelize, Handlebars, and sessions. I contributed comment and voting models and APIs, authentication, and post-interaction workflows.
Independent API build
Nickless Weather Radar
A sole-author JavaScript application integrating external weather APIs to provide current conditions and forecasts by city.
Earlier development work
Foundational web projects
Movie Search
A collaborative film and television discovery interface using server-side APIs, JavaScript, local storage, and Bulma.
Nickless Quizzer
A timed JavaScript assessment with answer validation and locally stored high scores.
Robot Gladiators
A browser-based game built with JavaScript and HTML.
Run Buddy
A responsive HTML and CSS marketing site for a fitness-training service.
Horiseon Accessibility Refactor
An HTML and CSS refactor focused on semantic structure, alternative text, and color contrast.
Operator-informed product building
Founder perspective
CleanAR combines an operating business with hands-on product development. Running the company provides direct insight into customer acquisition, quoting, scheduling, field execution, quality assurance, invoicing, and financial administration—allowing software decisions to be grounded in real operational use.
Discuss partnerships or the CleanAR product direction- Direct user access
- Product decisions informed by customers, operators, and administrative workflows.
- 0-to-1 execution
- Strategy, workflow design, software development, and business operations.
- Systems background
- Experience in regulated platforms, reliability, data, automation, and technical delivery.
Career journey
A consistent path through complex systems
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Co-Founder and CEO · June 2024–Present
CleanAR Solutions · Toronto, Ontario · Entrepreneurial Venture
Co-founded the service business, leads its operations, and develops internal software from firsthand workflow needs.
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Senior Product Manager · November 2021–Present
Scotiabank · Toronto, Ontario
Leads automated credit-adjudication product strategy, platform migration, data integration, launch readiness, and cross-functional delivery.
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Risk Technology Manager · May 2019–October 2021
Scotiabank · Toronto, Ontario
Led model implementation, automated validation, data reconciliation, and decisioning-platform reliability across multiple portfolios.
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Reliability Engineer · November 2018–April 2019
GVA Lighting · Oakville, Ontario
- Conducted R&D and reliability testing on LED prototypes, identified critical failure modes, and delivered findings that informed design and production decisions.
- Standardized test procedures and reporting workflows, reducing report-generation time by 30% and improving failure-data analysis.
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Postdoctoral Fellow · 2017–2018
Toronto Metropolitan University · Toronto, Ontario
- Led biomaterials laboratory operations and secured a CAD $75,000 NSERC grant for critical research equipment.
- Developed bioactive glass coatings and scaffold-fabrication methods for medical-implant applications while supervising more than 10 students.
- Authored and co-authored multiple peer-reviewed scientific publications and managed advanced materials characterization and testing protocols.
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Validation Engineer · November 2011–August 2013
Hospira · Haina, Dominican Republic
- Led validation of more than 100 product specifications and qualification of more than 10 manufacturing systems in a GMP-regulated environment.
- Performed risk-based assessments, root-cause investigations, and process-change evaluations, translating findings into mitigation and implementation plans.
- Supervised validation personnel and coordinated plant protocols to maintain compliance, technical quality, and delivery timelines.
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Engineering Technician · November 2010–October 2011
Hospira · Haina, Dominican Republic
- Improved a tube-cutting operation by 100% through new cutter-station design and converted 40% of analog airflow testers to digital systems.
- Maintained and troubleshot PLC-controlled manufacturing equipment, reducing downtime through technical interventions.
Education
Engineering and software foundations
Research training shaped how I investigate complex systems, model technical behavior, and communicate rigorous findings.
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Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering
Dissertation
Bioactive coating for Direct Skeletal Attachment application for lower limb prostheses.
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M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering
Thesis
Thermo-Mechanical Reliability of Micro-Interconnects in Three-Dimensional Integrated Circuits: Modeling and Simulation.
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B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering
Emphasis in Solid Mechanics, minor in Mathematics.
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Full Stack Development Certificate
Technical skills
Tools and practices across product, risk, data, and software
Product and Delivery
- Product strategy
- Roadmaps
- Platform modernization
- Data requirements
- Stakeholder alignment
- Agile delivery
- Jira
- Confluence
Risk and Data Technology
- FICO Decision Modeler
- FICO SRL/Blaze
- Credit decisioning
- Data governance
- SAS
- VBA
- SQL
- MongoDB
- Automated regression testing
- Data reconciliation
Software Development
- JavaScript
- Node.js
- Express
- React
- Vite
- HTML
- CSS
- Python
- C++
- MongoDB
- Mongoose
- MySQL
- REST APIs
- GraphQL
- Git
- Unit testing
Résumé
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Explore my product leadership, risk technology, engineering, research, and technical development experience in the complete résumé.
Start a conversation
Let’s build something that solves a real problem.
I welcome conversations about senior product leadership, risk technology, data-intensive platforms, and strategic collaboration around CleanAR’s product direction.
Location Toronto, Ontario, Canada