Summary
Tor Flatebo is an engineering manager with 12 years of experience building teams and developer platforms that scale, currently leading Developer Experience for real-time communications at Meta from Minneapolis. He has a strong track record transforming organizations—bringing DevOps, Agile practices, and developer joy to regulated healthcare at Medtronic and unifying toolchains and communities for thousands of engineers at Best Buy. Tor blends hands-on platform and SRE expertise with people-first leadership, having led platform, productivity, and site reliability teams that power high-throughput commerce and mission-critical medical products. A pragmatic systems thinker, he excels at turning fragmented toolsets into common, self-service platforms that boost collaboration and throughput. Notably, his career spans both deep technical roles and program-level coordination dating back to broadcast systems and early Java/Unix engineering, giving him unusual breadth across operations, product, and engineering culture.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Political Science, Computer Science, Political Science at University of Minnesota
BS, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, BS, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence at The Evergreen State College