Grindr | LGBTQ+ Dating App
Challenge
Grindr is the world’s leading LGBTQ+ social networking app, connecting 11M+ monthly active users globally. As the company scaled rapidly and prepared for its 2022 public listing, reaching a $2.1B valuation, ensuring platform stability, performance, and data reliability became critical.
The brand was looking to migrate a large Data Lake from Cloudera to Snowflake. The migration comprised dozens of critical data pipelines and hundreds of datasets that were used daily to operate the business.
Grindr is the world’s leading LGBTQ+ social networking app, connecting 11M+ monthly active users globally. As the company scaled rapidly and prepared for its 2022 public listing, reaching a $2.1B valuation, ensuring platform stability, performance, and data reliability became critical.
The brand was looking to migrate a large Data Lake from Cloudera to Snowflake. The migration comprised dozens of critical data pipelines and hundreds of datasets that were used daily to operate the business.
Solution
We started with a single Data Engineer and have since added 3 more. We went from a lift and shift project to more general business data modeling support for new product features and a steady burn down of technical debt.
We started with a single Data Engineer and have since added 3 more. We went from a lift and shift project to more general business data modeling support for new product features and a steady burn down of technical debt.
Results
We have an ongoing partnerhip with the client. They manage the Devlane engineers as part of their agile / scrum development process. The migration was completed on time and the team moved to develop new features.
We have an ongoing partnerhip with the client. They manage the Devlane engineers as part of their agile / scrum development process. The migration was completed on time and the team moved to develop new features.