Jun-young Kwak (Sr. Director, Engineering), and Priyanka Halder (Sr. Leadership, QA & Release) will delve into the fascinating journey of Tinder’s quality engineering over the past decade, highlighting the dynamic evolution and innovative strategies that have underpinned the platform’s success in connecting millions worldwide. The talk traces the early days of experimentation with various quality assurance models, both in-house and outsourced, reflecting on the lessons learned and the pivotal decisions that shaped the future of quality at Tinder. A significant milestone in this journey...
Jun-young Kwak
Senior Director, Engineering
Tinder
Jun-young Kwak is a Senior Director, Engineering at Tinder. He currently oversees the Integrity engineering team to make Tinder the safest place to meet new people, and manages part of the Foundations engineering team, which enables other teams to deliver meaningful and exciting changes to members with quality and speed. Prior to Tinder, he worked on 1) building a seamless data pipeline for training models and predicting risks while supporting various machine learning algorithms and 2) building big data-driven scalable and robust distributed systems. Jun-young completed his PhD from the Computer Science Department at the University of Southern California, specializing in Artificial Intelligence. Prior to that, he completed his masters degree from the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University and undergraduate education at Seoul National University, Korea.