Erik Hughes
Senior Full-Stack Engineer at Spotify
Stockholm County, Sweden
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Top SchoolErik Hughes is a Senior Full-Stack Engineer based in Stockholm with 11 years of experience building accessible, test-driven web platforms and cloud services. He blends a B.Sc. in Human-Computer Interaction with hands-on expertise across React, Angular, Node.js, Go, and modern cloud/tooling to architect microservices, feature-flagging systems, and VR education platforms. As a team lead and frequent speaker, he pairs technical leadership and mentorship with a strong focus on linting, testing, accessibility, and developer ergonomics. Erik has repeatedly driven product direction and high ownership in distributed teams, most recently shaping experimentation infrastructure at Spotify after leading feature-flag and agentic-workflow efforts at Reflag. He’s been shipping code since age 12, treats programming as a lifestyle, and balances it with yoga and board games—bringing creative problem solving and rapid learning to demanding engineering challenges.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Highschool Graduation, Architectural Sciences and Technology, Highschool Graduation, Architectural Sciences and Technology at Thorildsplans GymnasiumBachelor of Science - B.Sc., Human Computer Interaction, Bachelor of Science - B.Sc., Human Computer Interaction at Stockholm University
Swedish, English
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Github Skills (200)
animated10
automation10
browser10
vue-i18n10
api10
home-automation10
nodejs10
packed10
esp826610
frontend10
python10
api-client10
esp3210
home-assistant10
rest-api10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
tapps-io/tapp
Feb 2020 - Mar 2022
This is a tiny app template used for micro-architecture on client side.
Contributions:6 releases, 12 PRs, 45 pushes in 2 years 2 months
templateclient-sidetinyjavascripttiny-app
trutoo/uikit
Nov 2019 - Jan 2021
Whitelabled interactive elements following strict code quality and accessibility
Contributions:142 commits, 87 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 1 month
lit-elementweb-componentsfollowingelementsa11y
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