Mateo Reyes

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Senior Product Manager at Wells Fargo · credit, underwriting

Wells Fargo
Chicago, IL · CT (UTC-6)
11+ years experience
Yale University
English, Mandarin
AdvisingOpen to work
Messaging unavailable

Overview

Currently at Wells Fargo, where I work on lending. Grew lending revenue from $2 million to $16 million ARR. I teach a weekend class on credit.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Advice on lending
  • Roles in lending
  • Second opinions on underwriting decisions
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Working sessions on routing
Please don't message about
  • Offshore staffing offers
  • Feature requests for my employer's product
  • Sales demos

Slower in the last week of each quarter

Skills
underwritingcomplianceroutingcreditproduct strategy
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 3 months

Office hours for engineers moving into product: lending and routing

Topics
lending, compliance, underwriting
Format
Formal advisor role
Terms
Paid
Capacity
One advisory role at a time
Best for
Seed to Series A teams

11 years of lending. One call a month or async reviews.

Chicago, ILcreditroutingcompliance
Open
Open to workLooking for a role
closes in 3 months

Next role: Product Manager in HR tech, Chicago or hybrid

Target roles
Product Manager
Level
Senior
Industries
E-commerce, AI infrastructure
Work mode
Hybrid
Available
60 days notice
Work authorization
Authorized to work in the IL
What I'm looking for
Scope to lead lending work, with a manager who gives direct feedback.
Not interested in
Pure people management

11 years in lending. Strongest at compliance and credit. Available immediately.

Chicago, ILproduct strategyroutingcredit
Open

Experience

  1. Senior Product Manager
    Aug 2025 - Present
    Wells Fargo · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Chicago, IL
    • Grew lending revenue from $8 million to $49 million ARR.
    • Killed 7 features nobody used and shipped the 4 that customers asked for.
  2. Product Manager
    Oct 2022 - Aug 2025
    Robinhood · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Chicago, IL
    • Killed 5 features nobody used and shipped the 2 that customers asked for.
  3. Product Manager
    May 2019 - Oct 2022
    Walmart · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Chicago, IL
    • Grew lending revenue from $5 million to $28 million ARR.
    • Ran 90 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
  4. Associate Product Manager
    Feb 2016 - May 2019
    Block · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Chicago, IL
    • Launched the lending product in 6 markets.
    • Took lending activation from 28% to 50% in three quarters.

Projects

Write-up: lending in practice
2026

A long-form guide to lending for people starting out.

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Education

  1. Yale University
    BA, Economics
    2010 - 2014

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