# Nathaniel Wolf

> Director of Engineering

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/nathanielwolf

## Work Experience
### Director of Engineering @ Grindr
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
• Lead Monetization Engineering during rapid growth, delivering revenue-critical features that drive 30% YoY growth (Q3 2025) with a 47% adjusted EBITDA margin
• Scale AI-driven developer productivity across the org, rolling out Firebender and supporting use of Cursor and Claude Code across org resulting in signifigant productivity gains per engineer
• Own end-to-end engineering for Grindr Edge, the company’s first AI-powered subscription tier- shipping AI chat summaries, heuristic and AI derived profile insights, and ML-driven recommendations at scale
• Partner cross-functionally with Product, Data, and Design to deliver reliable, high-impact systems rapidly without sacrificing quality
• Build and lead high-performing team of iOS, Android and Backend engineers emphasizing senior technical leadership, execution excellence, and strong engineering culture

### Engineering Manager @ Google
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024
• Led Android engineering teams responsible for Autofill with Google, driving improvements in accuracy with improved heuristic and ML models, strengthening observability, security, and overall user experience.
• Partnered with Chrome and Core Identity teams to define and execute a comprehensive authentication strategy, prioritizing privacy, reliability, and product quality.
• Directed the implementation of Credential Manager APIs, enabling first-class platform support for passkeys across Android.
• Owned the AOSP Autofill APIs, ensuring robust security, privacy compliance, and seamless partner integrations.

### Sr. Director of Engineering @ Pandora
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021

### Director of Engineering, Android @ Pandora
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021
Technical Direction, Team Management
Enhance listening experience, improve quality, product strategy for all SiriusXM and Pandora Android clients.

### Manager Software Engineering @ Pandora
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018
Drive new feature development, higher quality apps, and more efficient teams of Android and iOS engineers on Listener Experience
Drive technical execution and architecture on various listener product features

### Senior Android Software Engineer @ Pandora
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016
Software Engineering, Listener Experience.

### Director of Mobile Product Development @ Couchsurfing
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Managed mobile product development process
• Defined product requirements
• Set mobile roadmap
• Defined mobile API
• Core contributor to the Android app
• Android app usage increased ~35x and iOS ~15x during my 2 year tenure at Couchsurfing

### Mobile Team Lead @ Couchsurfing
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Lead Android and iOS engineering teams.
• Core contributor to the Android app. 
• Continued responsibility for mobile product requirements and API design
• Coordinated the launch of new apps against a new backend and feature set in November 2014.  Android monthly actives increased from 15k to 150k in the following 3 months. iOS saw similar growth.

### Senior Mobile Software Engineer @ Couchsurfing
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Core contributor to Couchsurfing Android App
• API design
• Launched new app in June 2014. Monthly actives increases organically from 5k to 15k in the following 5 months.

### Android and Backend Engineer, Product @ GoPure
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Lead Android engineer and UX design
• Responsible for product vision 
• Designed and developed mobile API using Tomcat, Restlet, Mongo DB and ElasticSearch

### Engineering Consulting @ Self
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Developed Android application for early stage startup
• Product Manager / Developer for web front-end product. Drupal, PHP.
• Mechanical engineering

### Android Engineer @ RealMealz
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012
• Developed and released Android app
•  Coordinated with server engineer to develop API

### Engineer, Research and Design @ Palm
Jan 2007 – Jan 2009 | Sunnyvale, CA
• Conceptualized, designed, constructed and demoed functional hardware and software prototypes. Java, C# .Net, Flash, C for MSP430
• Reported on competitive products, related technology, and future trends
• Developed intellectual property, filing patents including the Touchstone wireless charger
• Conducted user experience testing
• Collaborated closely with product design group

### Software Developer / Network Engineer @ Iteon Consulting, LLC
Jan 2004 – Jan 2007
• Software development - .Net for Windows, Windows Mobile, Flash 
• Network design, implementation and support
• Data Forensics experience includes Mac OS and Windows systems
• Desktop support for Windows based operating systems in active directory environments


## Education
### BA in Computer Science, Mathematics
Bowdoin College

### Study Abroad in Computer Science, Mathmatics
University of Otago


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nathaniel-wolf
- Website: https://pandora.com/careers/position?id=o4Riafw7

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Last updated: 2026-04-05