Emma Indal
Engineering Manager at Spotify
Gothenburg, Sweden
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Top SchoolEmma Indal is an Engineering Manager at Spotify with nine years of web engineering experience and a six-year track record working on Backstage, the popular open framework for developer portals. She combines a strong focus on developer experience and information architecture with hands-on front-end work—recent contributions include adding and integrating a Stack Overflow plugin into Backstage. Known for a growth mindset and user-centered thinking, she moves fluidly between coaching teams and shipping UI components that improve developer productivity. Based in Gothenburg, she brings practical teaching and consulting experience from academia and startups, and outside work she recharges with running, skiing, hiking, yoga and gardening.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Malmö UniversityGymnasieexamen, Handel och administration, Gymnasieexamen, Handel och administration at Jensen Gymnasium Göteborg
Swedish, English
Github Skills (7)
typescript10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
react10
typescript-types10
ui-components10
backstage9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
backstage/backstage
Apr 2020 - Jan 2023
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:828 reviews, 595 commits, 293 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Emma primarily contributed to the front-end of the Backstage developer portal by adding and integrating a new Stack Overflow plugin. Their work included the creation of new components like `HomePageStackOverflowQuestions` and modifying existing templates to display Stack Overflow question information. They also published stories for the Stack Overflow plugin and made various updates for UI fixes.
portalsinfrastructureopen-platformdxbackstage
backstage/techdocs-cli
Mar 2021 - Oct 2021
Utility CLI for managing TechDocs sites in Backstage.
Contributions:1 release, 33 reviews, 74 commits in 6 months
sitestechdocsbackstagecli-utilitytechdocs-cli
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