Ainhoa Larumbe
Senior Software Engineer at Spotify
Greater Southampton Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAinhoa Larumbe is a Senior Software Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience in JavaScript and full-stack development, currently shaping backend systems at Spotify after a long tenure at IBM Hursley Labs. She specializes in Node.js microservices and cloud-native infrastructure (Kubernetes, Docker), and has shipped App Connect features and pipelines while also building React frontends and Angular-based UIs earlier in her career. Her open-source contributions include extending Backstage’s Scaffolder backend permissioning—improving template permissions and batch authorization handling—demonstrating attention to secure, scalable developer tooling. Having moved from Spain to the UK to join software labs, she blends international team experience with a pragmatic testing mindset and a history of leading testing efforts before transitioning to development.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, - Exchange Year abroad, Computer Science, - Exchange Year abroad at Western Washington UniversityIngenieria Informatica (Computer Engineering), Engineering, Ingenieria Informatica (Computer Engineering), Engineering at Universidad Pública de Navarra
Spanish, English
Github Skills (11)
backstage10
typescript10
typescripts10
api10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
typescript-types10
expressjs9
portal8
web-developer8
cnc6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
backstage/backstage
Sep 2021 - Apr 2022
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 32 commits, 7 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Ainhoa focused on back-end development within the Backstage framework, specifically enhancing the permissioning system. They added a metadata endpoint to expose template permissions and made changes to the permission integration router to handle multiple resource types. Further contributions involved implementing the code to handle batch requests of permissions and updating associated unit tests. These changes appear focused on extending the authorization capabilities within the Scaffolder backend.
portalsinfrastructureopen-platformdxbackstage
ainhoaL/sugar-salt-butter
Sep 2016 - Nov 2021
Backend for web application to organize (store and search) recipes.
Contributions:60 PRs, 102 pushes, 41 branches in 5 years 2 months
recipesdjangojavascriptorganizeweb-application
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