About Us

Chris Coyne

Co-founder

Chris has masterminded three of the world’s most popular websites. As Co-Founder and Creative Director of TheSpark.com, Chris oversaw development of both TheSpark.com and SparkNotes.com. TheSpark earned acclaim as Maxim magazine “Site of the Year,” Yahoo’s “Best of the Web” and countless press mentions including USA Today, Jane, Time, and Newsweek.

SparkNotes.com remains the world’s most popular educational website and has been written up in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and U.S. News.

As Co-Founder of OkCupid, Chris is once again trying to bring people happiness — this time by playing matchmaker. Chris graduated from Harvard College with a BA in Mathematics.

Sam Yagan

Co-founder, Chief Executive Officer

Sam has spent six years as an entrepreneur, first as Co-founder and CEO of TheSpark.com, Inc., maker of SparkNotes, the world’s leading brand of educational study aids. More recently, he has served as President of MetaMachine, Inc., developer and distributor of the world’s leading P2P file-sharing application, eDonkey.

Sam has also served as Vice-President and General Manager at Delias, Corp., and Vice-President and Publisher at Barnes & Noble, Inc. Sam has a BA in Applied Mathematics & Economics from Harvard College and an MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.

Max Krohn

Co-Founder

Max has spent his adult life building scalable popular Web sites, with the likes of Sam, Chris, Christian, and the awesome team at OkCupid. He was a founder at SparkNotes and TheSpark, and also at OkCupid.com, where he's been working on infrastructure build-outs to keep the site running smoothly.

He wrote the OK Web Server (OKWS) that OkCupid uses, as well as the Tame system for management of asynchronous events.

Max graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College with a degree in Computer Science and Mathematics, and has a PhD from MIT in Computer Science.

Christian Rudder

Co-founder, General Manager, Editorial Director

Christian first gained fame as Editorial Director of TheSpark.com, where he authored the web’s most popular personality tests. He also designed and wrote TheSpark’s series of infamous science projects, including The Fat Project, Stinky Meat, Stinky Feet, and Date My Sister.

In addition to contributing to OkCupid’s editorial content, Christian moonlights with his band, Bishop Allen. Christian graduated from Harvard College with a BA in Mathematics.

Eli Gwynn

Software Engineer

Eli plays the saxophone, loves jazz music and can speak Mandarin at the level of a 6 year old Chinese child. Yes, that picture’s actually him.

Tom Quisel

Chief Technology Officer

Tom’s robotic arms give him twice the strength of a normal man, but we can’t find him a keyboard that doesn’t shatter after a few days.

Meghan Beresford

Creative Strategist

Meghan handles social media strategy & initiatives for OkCupid and oversees community-building ventures such as OkCupid Meetups, Success Stories, and Contest events. She also makes sure the programmers never, ever run out of Pepsi. (Seen “Gremlins”? Yeah.) She is meghanberes on the site.

Craig Hammell

Lead Developer

Craig loves JavaScript.

Daniel Andres

Chief Product Officer & Lead Designer

Daniel’s days are spent keeping Staff Robot happy.

Mike Maxim

Head of Infrastructure

Mike graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a degree in computer science and has worked in the software industry and spent time as a “professional student” before landing at OkCupid. Now he works on back-end development to try and both improve the site and make sure it keeps working.

Morley Zhi

Developer

Morley owns a lot of T-shirts. He has a BS in Marketing from NYU, but don’t hold that against him.

Tom Jacques

Head of Site Quality

Tom graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a BS in Computer Science. He now takes all of his life advice from Courage Wolf.

Andrew Fiorillo

Designer & Developer

Andrew thinks it would be quite awesome to have the ability move things with his mind. He has spent countless hours staring at inanimate objects, hoping to achieve this goal, but has met only marginal success. He claims to have once moved a paperclip several inches, but admits it might have been the result of a forceful exhale.

Alex Dumitriu

System Administrator

Alex has spent his professional life wrangling herds of servers and fighting off hordes of angry users with nothing but a Linux install CD and a cup of coffee.

Alex graduated from Columbia University with a BS in Biology.

David Koh

Software Engineer

David is a lifelong builder. As a young child, he constructed massive domino lines and marble runs. His affinity for big, complicated contraptions led him to MIT, where he somehow ended up with a BS in computer science. Nowadays, he has traded in his marble tracks for website source code (though he has to remember that, unlike with dominos, the goal is not to knock down all the servers).

Jessica Lee

Office Coordinator

Jessica often makes strange noises for fun and warmed up for high school choral concerts by imitating Pokémon. In college, she studied linguistics and East Asian languages instead of some type of engineering, so now she takes out the trash at OkCupid.

Jessica graduated cum laude with a BA from UMass Amherst. She is pipelinebreak on the site.

Ray Sohn

Developer

Ray is malfunctioning.

Nick Saretzky

Mobile Developer

Nick is a recovering flash developer for the fashion and video industries. He has a BA from TCNJ in Interactive Multimedia and a MS in Information Technology from RPI. His passions include interactive design, procedural animation, photography and sleep.

When not being completely insane hilarious, he likes to field test the product as okprogramming.

Matt Miller

Mobile Developer

Matt has been doing a catch and release program with the higgs boson for fun. He has found it 4 times so far.

When he was born, Java was updated with a native SOAP service for his subconscious. He works on okcupid's Android app, and has helped more OSS community members get dates than all of themselves combined.

He trolls unsuspecting lady folk as mathieu87. Problem?

Jennifer Cruz

Media Designer

Jen spends most of her time pushing buttons.
Sometimes it might be yours. Jen graduated from the School of Visual Arts with a B.F.A. in graphic design.

Courty Stanton

Product Designer

Courty used to live in Seattle, WA, where he grew up as a kid. Now you can find him wandering the streets of Manhattan, unintentionally making eye contact with New Yorkers. He's probably wearing a vest, too, because nobody's told him that those aren't cool… yet.

Courty studied Urban Planning, Law, and Human Rights at the University of Washington before falling in love with design.

Chris Aurelio

Systems Administrator

Chris is a practitioner of the deviant voodoo-black-magick art known as Unix administration

Sean Patrick Henry

Developer

Sean once traveled the world as a tap-dancing penguin. He's also mildly obsessed with triathlons and Mexican food, but not at the same time.