Christopher Dower
Senior Software Engineer at Tinder
Santa Monica, California, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Dower is a Senior Software Engineer based in Santa Monica with 12 years building scalable systems and SRE-focused infrastructure, particularly around Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code. He has advanced through multiple engineering and brief management roles at Tinder, delivering production-grade distributed systems and operational tooling. Earlier systems engineering work at ICANN and co-op experience at Bose reflect a strong foundation in reliability, networking, and embedded-aware software. Christopher pairs hands-on coding with systems thinking—comfortable bridging platform engineering, deployment automation, and developer experience. He’s an avid learner who gravitates toward infrastructure problems and has consistently progressed from internships to senior technical ownership in consumer-scale services.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science Minor in Management and Technology, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science Minor in Management and Technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (43)
docker10
credit10
ecosystem9
catalog9
container9
metadata9
dms9
iso9
golang9
publish9
go9
api9
open-data9
ckan9
metadata-management8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Cdower/SLLA
Mar 2018 - Jul 2022
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches in 4 years 4 months
losprotestcalendarlos-angeles
Cdower/k8s-deploy-update-controller
Aug 2021 - Apr 2023
Kubernetes cronjob to update deployments when there are new releases.
Contributions:2 releases, 10 reviews, 28 PRs in 1 year 7 months
devopscronjobupdatekubernetesdeployments
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