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Colin Bodell is the VP of Engineering of Shopify Plus. Prior to Shopify, Colin was CTO of Groupon, responsible for global engineering and IT; before that, CTO of American Eagle Outfitters (AEO) focused on growth of Digital channels and omni-channel solutions to tie in-store and digital closer together.
Colin was CTO of Time Inc. from 2014 - 2016 responsible for global technology through the spin-out of Time Warner and subsequent IPO. Focus at Time Inc. was migration of all systems to the Cloud (predominantly Amazon AWS) and significant growth of Time Inc. engineering in Bangalore.
He joined Amazon in May 2006 to run the Website Application Platform (WAP) group. WAP provides the platforms, services and tools that power Amazon’s websites. He was also responsible for Builder Tools, the team that creates the software and services that enable Amazon’s software development community to turn revolutionary ideas into high quality code running on production systems. He was the owner of the migration of Amazon Retail platform to AWS. His final role at Amazon was leader of Amazon Digital Store Platform organization, responsible for the Kindle book, periodical and magazine store and the technology that supports all Amazon digital content across web, Kindle and third party devices.
Prior to Amazon, Colin was CTO and EVP Engineering at VA Software where he had product and engineering responsibility for SourceForge Enterprise Edition and the technical operations of the company’s media properties. Prior to VA Software, he held executive positions at Webgain, IntelliCorp and Micro Focus.
Colin attends and speaks frequently at industry events which have included: OSCON, OSBC, Open Source Think Tank, Grace Hopper Celebration, NCWIT, WePAN, Amazon AWS Re:invent and Future Stack.
He is a member of the board of trustees of AnitaB.org and a member of the board of the National Center for Women in Technology (NCWIT); He is an advisor to two pre-IPO companies in the SF Bay Area: YotaScale and Hacker Rank.
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