Summary
Ethan Thacker is a technical lead with a decade of experience building scalable full-stack applications for large user bases. He currently leads engineering at Match Group, guiding cross-functional teams to ship reliable features for tens of thousands of active users and over 750k iOS App Store downloads. His stack spans Swift, Ruby, Cassandra, Kafka, Elasticsearch, and PostgreSQL, and he is fluent across iOS, Rails, Spring, and .NET Core. A dual-degree graduate, he holds BS in Computer Science from UNC Charlotte and a BA in Economics from UNC Chapel Hill, blending technical depth with business insight. Based in Dallas, Texas, he has progressed from intern to staff engineer and now Technical Lead, consistently solving challenging problems with modern technologies.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 3.47 GPA, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 3.47 GPA at University of North Carolina at Charlotte
BA, Economics, Political Science, BA, Economics, Political Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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