Avantika Iyer
Engineering Manager at Spotify
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAvantika Iyer is an engineering manager and full-stack software leader with 11 years of experience and a strong foundation in front-end development, computer graphics, and vision. She has progressed from hands-on roles building responsive UIs and graphics-heavy web features to leading engineering teams at Spotify, combining product-minded execution with release and source-control stewardship. Her background includes shipping APIs, marketplace and dashboard experiences, and large-scale front-end systems across startups and enterprise tools, often reducing manual processes and accelerating partner workflows. She pairs Columbia-trained CS rigor with practical pragmatism—chairing guilds and driving design-system upgrades to manage technical debt and cross-team priorities. Known for bridging design and engineering, she brings both deep implementation skills (React, Node, Go) and people leadership to scale teams and systems.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Credits Computer Science, Graduate Credits Computer Science at Yale UniversityMaster’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at Columbia UniversityBachelor’s Degree Information Technology, Bachelor’s Degree Information Technology at Anna University Chennai
English, Hindi, Tamil, Marathi, French
Github Skills (20)
backstage10
infrastructure10
dx10
service-catalog10
microservices10
testcafe8
browser6
functional-testing6
test-framework6
nodejs5
typescript5
testing5
javascript5
atom-editor5
selenium4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
tikabom/trolldetector
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:15 pushes, 3 branches in 6 days
tikabom/Button
May 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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