I need love advice!

Okay so in short, there's this guy that I went to school with from reception through to year 12 (Australia). We graduated last year and I never really had anything to do with him aaaall that much in school as he was popular and I wasn't. This year I started going out to the local pub with my friends on Friday nights and sometimes I see him there and every time we see each other we hug and have a nice but short chat and he asks me how my studies are going and what not and he's just very lovely (he usually initiates the hugs too). On Saturday I decided to download tinder because why not and he just happened to be the 5th person in. Anyway I was contemplating whether I should swipe right for him or not for like ten minutes and in the end I was like duck it he wouldn't have swiped right anyway so I took the plunge and swiped right and it turns out he had already swiped right for me so we matched! Now since this happened I have not been able to get him on my mind and I'm slowly getting feelings for him. Does it mean that he's possibly interested in me?