Mike Hamata
Fintech operator · AI product builder
I've spent 13 years inside a major Canadian brokerage, most recently managing risk and credit. The work is the unglamorous core of a regulated financial system: deciding what to let through and what to stop, knowing what breaks before it does, and protecting the customer on the other side of every account.
Now I'm building AI products, and I am enjoying it more than I expected. Agents that do operational work and ship end-to-end. A voice agent that runs a dental front desk. A research engine that reads filings and writes the analysis. A coaching app. A product-management simulation you can play in your browser.
The throughline is judgment. Thirteen years on a risk desk teaches you to ask what a system does on its worst day, not its average one, and to keep the customer at the center of every call. That's the lens I bring to building AI, and it's the part I enjoy most.
The short version
- 2013Client service desk at the brokerage. Four platforms, every product, and a knowledge base the team still uses.
- 2015Treasury. FX settlement, then collateral across four clearinghouses.
- 2017Risk and credit. Margin calls, options expiry, and the first Python scripts.
- 2021Supervisor. Risk policy, concentration monitoring, automating the desk.
- 2023Manager. A team of five, real-time margin risk firm-wide, and the service-pod transformation.
- 2026Founder and builder. DentinFlow incorporated, four AI products shipped.
Resume available on request.