Summary
Hannes Rabo is a Senior Software Engineer at Spotify with a decade of experience building and operating large-scale, cloud-native systems for payments and e-commerce. With an M.Sc. in Software Engineering of Distributed Systems, he combines deep backend expertise (Java, Python, Postgres, GCP, Kubernetes, BigQuery) with hands-on ownership of high-volume payment pipelines processing hundreds of millions of payments monthly. He excels at cross-team collaboration and shaping technical direction, balancing system design, analytics-driven debugging, and on-call responsibilities. His master's work introduced distributed tracing and graph-based analysis to core services, reflecting an interest in observability and impact visualization beyond routine engineering. Outside work he chairs and leads in the scouting organisation, applying product-like planning and teamwork skills to community programs.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Software Engineering of Distributed Systems, Master's degree Software Engineering of Distributed Systems at KTH Royal Institute of Technology