Kathryn Newbould
Senior Software Engineer at Spotify
Stockholm, Sweden
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Top SchoolKathryn Newbould is a Senior Software Engineer based in Stockholm with 12 years of experience building scalable, resilient Java systems and leading cross-functional initiatives into production. At Spotify she has driven large-scale backend and AI-adjacent projects supporting millions of users and preparing platforms for 10x growth, while improving availability and reducing latency on business-critical endpoints. Her strengths span distributed systems, cloud (AWS/GCP), API design and cost-conscious architecture, coupled with hands-on incident leadership and runbook-driven reliability. Kathryn is a pragmatic technical leader and mentor who has repeatedly led P1 incident responses, organized post-mortems, and improved on-call practices across teams. She also brings a track record of tooling and automation wins—reducing release times and test runtimes through CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code. With a theoretical physics background from UCL, she excels at applying analytical rigor to ambiguous, high-impact engineering problems.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Harrogate Ladies CollegeUniversity College London
Swedish, Esperanto
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (101)
security10
maven10
cpp10
mortar10
computer-science10
science10
java10
build-management10
spring10
spring-web9
terraform9
graph9
spring-boot9
hashicorp8
passkey8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
KathrynN/maven-site
Oct 2018 - Nov 2023
Apache Maven site
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
mavenapachejavaapache-mavenmaven-site
KathrynN/braid
Jun 2018 - Jul 2018
Better youtube subscription management. In react.
Contributions:51 PRs, 48 pushes, 41 branches in 28 days
reactsubscriptionsyoutubesubscriptionreactjs
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