João Lopes
Software Engineering Manager at Spotify
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolJoão Lopes is a seasoned software engineering manager based in Stockholm with 17 years of experience building high-performance, distributed backend systems and leading teams at companies including Spotify and Platform24. He blends hands-on expertise in scalable architecture, CI/CD and Kubernetes with people leadership—coaching engineers, nurturing autonomous teams, and delivering compliant healthcare and content platforms. Deeply curious about languages, algorithms (security, compression, distributed systems) and low-level engineering, he has a background in Erlang and backend systems that underpins his pragmatic approach to reliability and performance. A former Spotify engineer who returned as an engineering manager, João pairs product-focused delivery with a love of tinkering—electronics, music (trained double-bass) and cyberpunk culture inform his creative problem solving. He often surfaces non-obvious tradeoffs from protocol and data design, turning algorithmic insights into practical improvements for catalog and platform quality.
17 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Post graduation Computer Engineering, Post graduation Computer Engineering at University of Lisbon
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (60)
curses9
text-based9
arduino-ide8
cli8
arduino8
ide8
helios8
ncurses8
tui8
filesystem7
file-explorer7
helix7
pip6
neovim6
rust6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
jclopes/ZPassWeb
Feb 2015 - Feb 2020
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
jclopes/zpass3
Nov 2021 - May 2024
Password Manager without storage.
Contributions:15 reviews, 3 PRs, 10 pushes in 2 years 5 months
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