Toronto Tech Week x Loop Tech Talk 1: Shipping Quality at Speed - How We Built a Safety Net for Fintech Releases
Join us for our Toronto Tech Week x Loop Tech series!
What we'll cover: How Loop Financial transformed from "move fast and break things" to "move fast with confidence." Covering the engineering culture shift, tooling, and processes that let a small team ship rapidly to production while maintaining SOC2 compliance and avoiding customer-facing incidents.
Key topics:
Trunk-based development with strict branch protection
CI/CD pipeline design: SAST, SCA, container scanning, and approval gates
Just-In-Time production access with Icebreak (15-minute auto-expiring access)
Ownership culture: what it really means to "own quality" of a domain service
Blameless post-mortems and continuous improvement loops
Meet the presenter:
Yan Matagne is an Engineering Leader and passionate about making product processes smoother and customers happier, while helping engineering teams work smarter. He loves to take complicated tech problems and make it work for real people. Another one of his passions is building systems that make developers' lives easier and customers smile more. When he is not automating complex problems, you will find him sharing stories about what actually works in the real world of engineering leadership. Yan is the Head of Engineering at Loop Financial and has over 7 years experience in the FinTech industry in Canada.
Whether you’re scaling a fintech platform, modernizing your DevOps practices, or trying to reconcile velocity with reliability, this talk offers practical lessons you can apply immediately. Come learn how to move fast—with confidence.
Toronto Tech Week is a citywide celebration of the people building what’s next. From May 25–29, 2026, founders, investors, and builders come together for hundreds of community-led events across Toronto, connecting tens of thousands of people around Canadian tech. Torontotechweek.com.