Chris O'brien
Senior Director Of Engineering at Tinder, Inc.
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris O'Brien is a senior engineering leader with 20+ years in tech and over a decade managing teams that run some of the world’s largest consumer platforms, currently leading Platform Engineering at Tinder and overseeing an 80-engineer organization. He combines deep infrastructure and platform expertise—from petabyte-scale storage at MediaFire to cloud-native systems at PlayStation and AWS-backed analytics—with a hands-on approach to solving complex technical problems. Known for scaling high-performing teams, mentoring engineers, and enabling rapid feature delivery, he consistently balances product stability with velocity. Based in Los Angeles, he favors continuous learning and curiosity, and maintains a personal site (chrisobrien.ai) that reflects his interest in emerging tech and engineering craft. An early career path from gaming editorial to CTO-level responsibilities reveals a blend of product intuition and technical leadership not obvious from titles alone.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Luzerne County Community College
English
Github Skills (42)
mysql9
dashboard9
visualization9
monitoring9
analytics9
visualize9
grafana9
graph9
prometheus9
data-visualization9
elasticsearch9
python8
influxdb8
go8
ansible8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
chrisjob1021/PythonPlay
Feb 2017 - Aug 2024
Contributions:31 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 7 months
chrisjob1021/GoCodingProblems
Jan 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:11 commits, 11 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
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