Brendan Bolon
Software Engineer at Spotify
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolBrendan Bolon is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of experience building high-scale, low-latency distributed systems, currently architecting and operating Spotify’s programmatic ad exchange that supports over €100M in annual revenue across audio, display, and podcast inventory. He specializes in OpenRTB protocol design, DSP integrations, and production reliability, consistently delivering resilient backends that meet strict latency SLAs in real-time advertising. Prior roles at Capital One and Fidelity honed his engineering rigor and large-system experience, while his dual Spotify titles reflect rapid progression into platform architecture. Based in New York, he combines hands-on implementation with operational ownership—often surface-level invisible work like latency tail optimization and failure-mode design that materially improves revenue delivery.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Virginia Tech College of EngineeringGithub contributions (3)
instillai/deep-learning-mini-course
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
Contributions:326 commits, 326 pushes in 20 days
brendan-bolon/brendan-bolon.github.io
Oct 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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