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Devin Thomson

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Director of Engineering at Tinder
📍 San Francisco, California, United States

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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Experience
12 Years
Current Role
Director of Engineering
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
San Francisco, California, United States
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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.
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Work history

3-2026
Director of Engineering
Tinder
7-2022 - 3-2026
Senior Engineering Manager
Tinder
1-2020 - 6-2022
Engineering Manager II
Tinder
9-2015 - 5-2016
Software Engineer II - Z Labs
Zoosk
1-2013 - 8-2015
Software Engineer II - Server-Side Applications
Zoosk
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Education
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
University of California, Berkeley
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