Ethan Thorsen-lusterman
Senior Engineer at Spotify
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolEthan Thorsen-lusterman is a Senior Engineer at Spotify with 13 years of experience building backend systems, data pipelines, and creator-focused product services within the Music mission. He blends Java, Scala/Dataflow/Scio, Python, and GCP expertise to design scalable backend infrastructure and has hands-on experience across frontend stacks when needed. At Spotify he’s rewritten core licensing systems, mentored engineers through internal tech learning programs, and contributes to creator experience tooling that sits at the intersection of music and platform engineering. Previously he consulted across industries on Python/Django backends and led engineering efforts for startups, bringing practical experience in performance tuning, asynchronous processing, and cloud architecture. He also taught software engineering and large system design as an adjunct professor at The Cooper Union, reflecting a commitment to mentorship and clear technical communication. Based in New York, he pairs academic training in electrical engineering with a pragmatic, production-first approach to delivering complex systems.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Baldwin Senior High SchoolBachelor's Degree, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Electrical Engineering at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
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Github Skills (77)
dataflow10
google-cloud10
streaming10
beam10
api10
batch10
bigquery10
scala10
theano10
avro9
ml9
protobuf9
google-cloud-dataflow9
apache-beam9
apache9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
luster/genre-classification
Oct 2013 - Oct 2014
Contributions:30 commits in 11 months
genrepythongenre-classificationdeep-learningmachine-learning
luster/ethanlusterman.com
Mar 2015 - Jan 2020
Contributions:4 PRs, 24 pushes, 6 branches in 4 years 11 months
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