Abbas Dhilawala

CTO

Abbas Dhilawala has spent 20 years writing software for an industry where mistakes have real consequences - Medical devices and Life sciences. That context tends to make you think differently about engineering, and about what it means to ship something. In 2016, he co-founded Galen Data on a straightforward premise: medical device companies needed a better way to capture, store, and act on device data in the cloud. What followed was a decade of building from scratch, earning HITRUST and ISO 13485 certifications, and eventually Matrix One acquired the company in 2025. He's now CTO at Matrix One, where he oversees the technical direction across their product portfolio. The current focus is rebuilding core products for the cloud and shipping AI features. He also runs a global engineering team, which he considers some of the most interesting work he's done.