Iris Schaffer
Staff Software Engineer at Spotify
Stockholm, Sweden
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Top SchoolIris Schaffer is a Staff Software Engineer at Spotify with 12 years of cross-disciplinary experience building scalable web and mobile products, increasingly focused on JavaScript and modern frontend architectures. Trained in media technology and interactive media with top academic honors, she blends strong software design instincts with an eye for UX, having led frontend teams and full-stack projects across agencies and enterprise clients. At Spotify she progressed from engineer to staff, driving technical leadership and shaping complex user-facing systems. Austrian-born and based in Stockholm, she brings multilingual curiosity—she’s a hobby linguist and cyclist who treats software craft like design, and even counts herself a beer connoisseur, revealing a detail-oriented yet personable approach to engineering.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSc), Media Technology and Design, graduated with high distinction (1.0), Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSc), Media Technology and Design, graduated with high distinction (1.0) at University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Hagenberg Campus
German, English, Spanish, Swedish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (126)
hosting10
directives10
pde9
javascript9
cli9
google-maps-javascript-api9
declarative9
addeventlistener9
google-api9
react9
frontend9
router9
client-library8
animate8
google-maps8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
irisSchaffer/master-thesis
Mar 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:73 commits, 68 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
irisSchaffer/irisschaffer.com-old
Aug 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:77 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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