Lorin is a Staff Software Engineer, Reliability at Airbnb, where he wrangles and analyzes incidents, and generally works on improving the system’s ability to recover quickly from failure.

Lorin started out his career as an academic, obtaining a PhD in computer science and a tenure-track position as an assistant professor at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Over time he transitioned into industry, eventually finding himself on the Chaos team at Netflix, where he wrote version 2 of Chaos Monkey and worked on the Chaos Automation Platform. However, he ended up finding organic failures much more interesting, and moved into the incident space.

He is an active member of the Resilience in Software Foundation and writes frequently about software, complex systems, and incidents at surfingcomplexity.blog.