Lafayette College

Staff Engineer at Spotify

Building and leading the Menus Core Services team.

ezCater

Senior Engineering Manager

We offer the ability to create online markets for farmers/producers and food buying clubs.

Buying Club Software

Partner

As I joined a new part of the company, I transitioned back into management. My focus was on the team responsible for activation through in-app education. I was in charge of:
* partnering with the product, design and product insights peers to implement the team's product strategy
* hiring 2 FTE and 2 contractors as our work ramped up
* working with each engineer on the team to drive their develop
* assisting with promotion packets when needed
* escalating and/or clarifying blockers/issues with peer teams when needed

Spotify

Taking advantage of Spotify's two track system (IC/Management), I continued working on problems in the messaging space as a Staff engineer. These included:
* researching spam traps and determining how to clean our data to avoid them
* making our message delivery process more understandable to our stakeholders

Staff Engineer

What started as a temporary role, filling in for a recently departed tech lead, became a full time role. I was in charge of:
* managing and supporting all chapter leads (engineering managers) in the messaging org
* working with my product, design, product insights and agile coach peers to develop, explain and execute a product strategy
* advocating for any larger scale technical projects, partnering with EMs and senior+ engineers
* building and maintaining relationship with our stakeholders and other technical leaders at the company

As a founding member of the messaging organization within Spotify, I applied for and received the role of Data Chapter lead. I was in charge of:
* developing a hiring strategy for data engineers and teaming up with the Talent Acquisition team to implement it
* managing all data engineers in the messaging org
* ensuring the quality of the on-call process and experience was top notch
* ensuring all of the data needs for our peer teams and stakeholders were met in a timely manner

Data Chapter Lead

As part of the Preact acquisition, my focus was migrating our product from AWS to Spotify's newly chosen cloud provider, GCP. Once the migration was complete, we began to rewrite our ingestion pipelines to handle the scale of Spotify's data.

Matthew Hokanson