Bianca Capretta
Senior Engineer at Spotify
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBianca Capretta is a Senior Engineer in Spotify’s Personalization mission with a decade of engineering experience designing scalable backend and ML-ready data pipelines that power personalized discovery for hundreds of millions of users. She has led cross-functional projects from audiobook launch analytics to ML candidate generation and productionized recommenders like Enhance and Smart Shuffle, combining strong domain knowledge in user behavior with practical systems engineering. Bianca frequently drives mentorship and tech-strategy workstreams, running large multi-day workshops and mentoring junior engineers while shaping domain ownership. Her background in cognitive science and music informs a rare blend of product empathy and technical rigor, evident in features that map nuanced listening relationships (exposure, connection, re-connection) into measurable signals. Based in New York, she pairs hands-on implementation experience with leadership in incident management and mission-level architecture.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Sciences (B.S.) Computer Science Cognitive and Brain Sciences Music, Bachelor of Sciences (B.S.) Computer Science Cognitive and Brain Sciences Music at Tufts UniversityThe Branson School
Github Skills (4)
textbook7
exchange6
python5
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
bkcapretta/bkcapretta.github.io
Nov 2016 - Dec 2022
A website about Bianca Capretta
Contributions:15 PRs, 137 pushes, 11 branches in 6 years 1 month
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JumboCode/TEN
Sep 2018 - Apr 2019
JumboCode 2018-2019 project for Textbook Exchange Network, led by Bianca Capretta.
Contributions:104 PRs, 162 pushes, 96 branches in 6 months
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