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Tomás Vega

Former VP Engineering · Cortex AI

San Francisco, CA, US

Scaled engineering orgs from 5 to 200. Advises on platform, hiring, and AI product strategy.

18+ years experienceEnglish, Portuguese

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18yrs

Operating leadership

Senior roles

Areas of expertise

5.0★

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What Tomás is known for

Tomás Vega is a former vp engineering with 18 years of experience across AI and SaaS. Best known for Scaled engineering orgs from 5 to 200. Advises on platform, hiring, and AI product strategy, Tomás has operated at the highest levels of engineering leadership and ai/ml. Today Tomás works with founders and leadership teams as an advisor — bringing hard-won pattern matching to the decisions that make or break a company's next year. Engagements range from one-off strategy sessions to ongoing advisory relationships, always grounded in real operating experience rather than theory. If you're wrestling with engineering leadership, Tomás has almost certainly solved a version of it before.

Expertise & sectors

Core expertise

Engineering Leadership AI/ML Hiring Platform

Sectors

AI SaaS

Experience

VP Engineering · Cortex AI

2019 — 2024

Director of Engineering · Mapbox

2014 — 2019

Ways to work together

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What people say about Tomás

“Our hiring bar and velocity both went up.”

LKLena K. · CTO, Cortex

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