Kenneth Larsen
Engineering Manager II at Spotify
Svendborg, Region of Southern Denmark, Denmark
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Top SchoolKenneth Larsen is an Engineering Manager II at Spotify with a decade of experience leading engineering and product strategy for platforms that reach hundreds of millions of users. He combines hands-on frontend expertise—rooted in Ember.js and a long history of web development—with senior leadership roles at CLARK and Linkfire, guiding teams from implementation to delivery. An Ember Core alumni and contributor to projects like inkle/inky, he’s improved cross-platform build and test automation, demonstrating a knack for making developer workflows more reliable. Based in Svendborg, Denmark, he pairs a Master’s in Information Science with a background in audio and podcasting ventures, bringing an unusual blend of user-centered thinking and technical rigor to large-scale consumer products.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Hjørring GymnasiumMaster’s Degree, Information Science/Studies, Master’s Degree, Information Science/Studies at Aarhus UniversitetBachelor's Degree, Information Studies and philosophy, Bachelor's Degree, Information Studies and philosophy at Aarhus Universitet / Aarhus University
English, Danish, German, vendelbomål
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
automation10
automations10
electron10
testing10
javascript9
nodejs9
linux8
cicd8
emberjs6
accessibility6
html6
css6
ember-data6
twitter-bootstrap6
jquery6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
inkle/inky
Jul 2016 - Oct 2017
An editor for ink: inkle's narrative scripting language
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:11 commits, 6 PRs, 25 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Kenneth focused on enhancing the build and test processes for the Inky application. They introduced build commands for the Linux platform, added testing capabilities using Spectron, and improved the test setup, including setting up the proper paths for different operating systems. They also added tests for application launch and verifying the "hello world" game to ensure it compiles correctly.
scriptinginklescripting-languageinkeditor
kennethlarsen/website
May 2016 - Jan 2019
Source for emberjs.com
Contributions:38 pushes, 58 branches in 2 years 7 months
emberjsember-addonember
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