Dan Drayne
Senior Product Manager at Spotify
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Drayne is a Senior Product Manager at Spotify with 15 years in product and engineering roles focused on desktop and web experiences. He has progressed from front-end developer and founding member of the Spotify Web Player to engineering manager and now leads product strategy and execution for Spotify Desktop and Web. Dan combines deep technical fluency in JavaScript, web platforms and SDKs with user-focused product leadership, owning features like embedded players, deeplinking and content acquisition funnels. Based in Edinburgh, he pairs a BSc in Music Technology and a PgDip in Multimedia with hands-on product delivery at scale. Notably, his background blends creative media training with long-term platform ownership, giving him a rare perspective on both UX-driven product decisions and low-level engineering trade-offs.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Music Technology, BSc Music Technology at Queen's University BelfastPgDip Multimedia & Interactive Systems, PgDip Multimedia & Interactive Systems at Edinburgh Napier University
Github Skills (4)
starlark10
golang9
inline6
youtube4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
dan0/youtubeplaylist
Dec 2010 - Jan 2013
Contributions:24 commits in 2 years 2 months
youtubeinlineturnslinksplaylist
dan0/bht_events_webfaction
Jun 2015 - May 2018
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
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