Orin Fink
Managing Partner & CTO at Thirdwave, LLC
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolOrin Fink is a veteran technology leader and co-founder currently serving as Managing Partner & CTO at Thirdwave, with over two decades of experience architecting multi-tenant web platforms, distributed systems, and privacy-conscious digital identity solutions. He blends hands-on engineering with executive management, guiding teams to solve complex information systems challenges while keeping strategic vision grounded in real user experience. Orin’s background spans startups and advisory CTO roles (including ZigMail and Road to Close), where he designed scalable, modular architectures and DevOps toolchains that balance immediate startup needs with long-term growth. His early technical discipline—shaped by Navy nuclear training and a chemical engineering degree—shows in a pragmatic, process-oriented approach to operations and reliability. Passionate about decentralized, user-owned systems, he’s focused on steering conversations away from centralized silos toward more federated models. A former farmer and Navy Electrician Mate, he brings uncommon resilience and a practical sense of stewardship to technology leadership.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Electrician Mate Nuclear/Nuclear Power Technology/Technician, Electrician Mate Nuclear/Nuclear Power Technology/Technician at Nuclear Power School - Naval Nuclear Power Training Command (NNPTC)Bachelors Chemical Engineering, Bachelors Chemical Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology
Github Skills (93)
testing9
gitbook9
webpack9
html8
management8
angular8
django8
varnish8
javascript8
python8
react8
web-components8
amazon-s38
vite8
capistrano8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
TheHistoryMakers/hm-public
May 2019 - Dec 2022
Contributions:46 PRs, 74 pushes, 25 branches in 3 years 7 months
thirdwavellc/capistrano-scm-maven
Mar 2019 - Nov 2023
A Custom SCM for Maven artifacts
Contributions:4 PRs, 20 pushes, 7 branches in 4 years 9 months
maven-pluginmavenscmartifactsjava
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