André Wanlin
Senior Customer Success Engineer at Spotify
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAndré Wanlin is a Customer Success Engineer at Spotify with five years of professional software and infrastructure experience, based in Winnipeg, Canada. He blends hands-on full-stack development with customer-facing engineering, specializing in Backstage where he has contributed significant refactors, deprecation fixes, and demo deployment improvements. His background includes leading small development teams and maintaining mission-critical .NET back-office applications, giving him a pragmatic appreciation for operational stability and developer workflows. At Rapid RTC he worked on infrastructure engineering, and his GitHub contributions show attention to build automation, dynamic release/versioning, and developer experience enhancements such as release notifications. Known for steadily expanding his technical breadth, he pairs curiosity with a track record of shipping improvements that reduce technical debt and smooth developer onboarding.
6 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Analyst Programmer, Computer Analyst Programmer at RRC Polytech
French
Github Skills (14)
backstage10
typescript10
javascript10
nodejs10
typescripts10
react10
typescript-types10
cicd9
front-end-development9
githubaction-workflow9
github-ci9
api9
apim9
github-pages8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
backstage/demo
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
The Backstage demo deployment
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:836 reviews, 19 commits, 913 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:André's commits primarily focus on enhancing the Backstage demo deployment. They refactored the `set-release-name.js` script, addressing bugs and warnings and incorporating dynamic versioning based on GitHub API releases. They also updated the front-end application components to utilize new Explore backend features and implemented changes to the application's root. Furthermore, the user added a Discord notification for new releases and enforced no deprecations.
backstage
backstage/backstage
Aug 2021 - Dec 2022
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1974 reviews, 270 commits, 438 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:André contributed to the Backstage project by addressing deprecated items and refactoring various components. They focused on updating imports and components, including the refactoring and renaming of the "MySquads" feature. Their work involved updating the catalog page, enabling GitHub pages, and refactoring various components.
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