Christopher Dower
Senior Software Engineer at Tinder
Santa Monica, California, United States
Summary
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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 (25)
catalog9
docker9
golang9
go9
api9
open-data9
ckan9
python8
kubectl8
container8
home-assistant8
ecosystem8
moby7
assemble7
datahub6
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/esphome
Feb 2020 - Jan 2026
esphome yaml files
Contributions:2 PRs, 12 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 11 months
esphomeyaml-filesyaml
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