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Gene Modin

Gene Modin

Quality Assurance Engineer

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Director of Engineering at Amazon

  • Education

    • Hunter College

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      BA Psychology, Classical Studies, CS

      Activities and Societies: Classics and Comparative Literature, Mythography and Mythology, Greek/Roman Epic and Drama, Latin Poetry, Talmud and Classics, Biblical Aramaic and Sanskrit studies. Double major in Psychology (concentration in Cognitive Processes) and Classical Studies (concentration in Ionic Greek grammar).

  • Experience

    • Miva, Inc.

      Jun 1999 - Nov 2001
      Quality Assurance Engineer

      PROJECTS: Price comparison tool, Genesis operating system, Bugzilla customization.

    • Synchronoss Technologies

      Feb 2002 - Nov 2005
      Quality Assurance Lead

      CLIENTS: Cablevision, Charter Communications, Cox, Time Warner Cable, Mediacom, Verizon, Telstra.

    • OnForce

      Jan 2006 - Nov 2008
      Quality Assurance Manager

      PROJECTS: Cisco, CompUSA, Dell, Microsoft.

    • Huge

      Nov 2008 - May 2010
      Quality Assurance Manager

      PROJECTS: British Airways, Jet Blue, Ikea, Scholastic, History.com, NYC & Company, Disney, iVillage/NBC, Miramax.

    • EMusic

      Jul 2010 - Feb 2012
      Director Of Quality Assurance

      PROJECTS: eMusic Scene iOS app, eMusic Android app, eMusic Radio, EMI, Sony, Universal Music, Warner Music, EMG, numerous independent labels and music companies.

    • UrbanDaddy

      Mar 2012 - Mar 2013
      Director of Quality Assurance

      Architected the Quality program, set up cloud native and cloud agnostic CI/automation from scratch—using CloudBees and Grid, Jenkins, Selenium WebDriver in Java, TestNG using SauceLabs' cloud-based browsers, Objective-C and Swift—for web, mobile web, native apps, and surface agnostic.

    • Spotify

      Mar 2013 - Mar 2016
      Quality Engineering Manager

      Managed a team of machine learning engineers and data scientists focused on building and optimizing data Quality models and their production deployment. Designed AI-based automated end-to-end Quality solutions for web platforms, cloud services, mobile apps and embedded systems on CI/CD pipelines at scale.

    • Amazon

      Mar 2016 - now
      Director of Engineering

      I drive the Quality program across Amazon's Engineering organization, ensuring the release of highest performing, feature-rich software that enables listeners ease of access to the best audiobooks of all time. I lead revenue-driven development with Quality baked in early in the cycle and advance a well distributed Testing Pyramid via effective CICD and DevOps function to continuously Shift Left and improve speed to market. I work on increasing Developer Productivity and efficiently shipping high-quality code that delivers business value through context/data-driven decision making and organizational enablement. I build and manage multiple geographically-dispersed impactful teams. Show less

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