Devin Thomson

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Director of Engineering at Tinder

San Francisco, California, United States

Overview

Devin Thomson is the Director of Engineering at Tinder, specializing in backend infrastructure and leading teams to build resilient, scalable systems with technologies like Kafka and AWS. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, he has progressed through multiple engineering management roles at the company.

He maintains an interest in his alma mater, the University of California, Berkeley, and follows developments at financial data and media companies.

He led a key project to geoshard Tinders recommendations index for significant performance and cost savings, authoring a public blog series on the architecture.

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Assertive

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Topics They Care About

Backend Infrastructure
Leads teams responsible for core backend services, utilizing technologies like Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, and various AWS services to ensure system resilience.
System Architecture
Authored a multi-part series on the architecture of geosharded recommendation systems, demonstrating deep expertise in large-scale, distributed system design.
Data Consistency
Wrote about solving data consistency challenges in distributed systems, a key focus in his work with geosharded indexes at Tinder.

Media Appearances

Devin has no verified media appearances

Work History

3-2026
Director of Engineering at Tinder
7-2022 - 3-2026
Senior Engineering Manager at Tinder
1-2020 - 6-2022
Engineering Manager II at Tinder
9-2015 - 5-2016
Software Engineer II - Z Labs at Zoosk
1-2013 - 8-2015
Software Engineer II - Server-Side Applications at Zoosk

Education

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) from University of California, Berkeley

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