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Los Angeles, CA

Thomas grew up in Seoul, South Korea, and studied Computer Science in UCLA.

His passion is iOS engineering and has made contributions to Yahoo, Tinder, and Quibi. He enjoys surfing, snowboarding, mixing cocktails and loves following Elon Musk's stories and his innovative technologies.

Tulum, Mexico

Lee was raised in the Chicago suburbs before spending the majority of his adult life in Colorado and California.

Lee was a professional athlete turned financial guru with 3 MBAs and a decade of experience at the premier Wall St. investment firms.

Lee loves the National Park system and tries to spend as much time enjoing Mother Earth with his fiance and 8 year old pup, Aspen.

WA

Matt grew up in San Diego where he also studied Computer Science at UCSD🔱

These days, he can be found running all over the SF Bay Area and even qualified for the 2020 Olympic Trials Marathon despite his shoe becoming untied twice in the race 👟

When not developing Android apps, running, or learning how to tie his shoes, Matt enjoys bike packing, eating vegan junk food, sewing bags, and studying skate videos 🛹

OR

Alli runs a branding consultancy and joined as Greg's Head of Brand in September 2021. She grew up in Los Angeles, California and has since spent her life traveling the globe. At Greg she's focusing on up-leveling the way we communicate with the world.

Missoula, MT

Gareth grew up in a small town near the shore of Lake Michigan in Wisconsin, which may or may not be a real place.

He emerged from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with a degree in design and took flight to Los Angeles, where he gained experience building consumer mobile products as an early design team lead at Tinder.

Gareth pursues an intentional life in the present, collects both rare plants and Pokémon, has traveled and lived in California, Iowa, and Montana. He currently resides in Wisconsin with his partner.

NC

Eric grew up on a homestead in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York. In college he coordinated the school's organic garden, took several botany classes, and taught outdoor education 🔬🌲

Starting with teaching, to developing image algorithms, working in Financial Services at Amazon, to leading ML efforts and developing a search platfrom for Aquent as Principal Architect, Eric has worked across the breadth of the industry, and excels at bringing the latest technology to fruition 🚀

Temecula, CA

Colin grew up on a farm near Boulder, Colorado and started doing marketing for tech startups in college.

He is an avid plant-based cook and lives in Temecula, California where he enjoys surfing, running, and gardening.

Manhattan, NY

Alex grew up in California and attended UCLA, where he studied Chinese (the language).

Partway through university he taught himself to program and eventually started business after graduating with his roommate, a design major.

Four years and a life adventure later, he joined Tinder as a Director of Engineering. His favorite work was creating the Trust & Safety team, responsible for keeping the community safe from spam and abuse.

When he isn't coding, Alex is usually either reading history, on a long run, camping, or walking around the city.

Manhattan, NY

Martin enjoys running, coffee black as midnight on a moonless night, and visiting family in the beautiful Arizona Sonoran Desert 🌵.

He has contributed to companies big and small with efforts across customer experience, data engineering, and technology program management.

He holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. Jack of all trades, master of none.

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Harpreet grew up in Punjab, India, and attended IIT Kanpur where he majored in Computer science. He joined us from Uber where he worked on various different products across Rides, Eats, and Grocery 🚙

Harpreet is a skill nomad and enjoys learning new skills. Pottery, Parkour, Improv, he does a 101 on all of them with his latest interest being Bouldering 🧗‍♂️He believes in the breadth of knowledge and travel as a path to self-discovery. Harpreet currently lives in Manhattan 🌃

Los Angeles, CA

Elina is deeply inspired by Zhuge Liang, Leonardo Da Vinci, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Taylor Swift.

She grew up in Malaysia as a mixed kid, and is currently based in the Bay Area. She graduated from UCLA in 2020, where she studied political philosophy.

She is a self-taught software engineer, visual artist, and fitness enthusiast. When she’s not powerlifting or climbing, Elina is thinking, meditating, reading, or journaling.

New Orleans, LA

Kiersten lives in New Orleans, LA and graduated with her masters degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Tulane University in 2019.

Originally from New York, her past work has brought her from the marshes of Long Island to the rocky Oregon coast, through the coral reefs of the Florida Keys and the muddy swamps of Louisiana.

In her spare time, Kiersten trains service dogs, and appreciates the gifts of the Earth by crabbing, running, hiking and of course- tending to her 150+ houseplants!

TX

Anthony currently lives in Austin, Texas with his wife and two young kids. He grew up in Canada and attended the University of Waterloo. Over the course of his career he's built products at early-stage startups and global powerhouses like VMWare and Tableau. Most recently he spent time at Google and Facebook, before joining Greg to help us dramatically up-level our mobile engineering.

Anthony is also an inveterate traveler, and spent 7 months traveling the globe with his wife and kids in 2015-2016. Favorite country? Malaysia stood out!

CA

Hui grew up in China and studied Computer Science in FSU.

Her journey of software engineering started as a contractor for small businesses, continued as a web engineer and full stack engineering manager ( for Header Bidder team) at OpenX, and recently as an Engineering Manager for the Trust & Safety team at Tinder.

As a photography enthusiast, non-prolific painter, figure collector and swimmer, she awaits her next hobby.

ID

Joshua spent his childhood living across five states and Puerto Rico. He found his love for design early, creating illustrations and animations in Macromedia Flash at 13 At 19 he co-founded a web design startup with his brother and future brother-in-law.

His work with Google, Automattic, XWP, and WordPress, helped to shape his love for building great products and working with amazing teams.

These days he spends time with his wife and two kids in the mountains and lakes of North Idaho. When not working he likes to run, hike, write, bike, read, and spend time with friends and family.

CA

Chris is an artist, craftsperson, and world-class engineer who resides in Los Angeles, CA and joined as our CTO in September of 2021. Before joining Greg, Chris had built the industry-leading Trust & Safety team at Tinder from the ground up. Before Tinder, he co-founded the mobile social company Wheel, which was acquired by Tinder.