Konstantin G
Technical Lead at Spotify
Stockholm, Stockholm County, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKonstantin G is a Technical Lead based in Stockholm with 14 years of backend and data engineering experience, currently leading the creator payouts team at Spotify and scaling the platform for international monetization. He specializes in large-scale royalties and payments systems—his code has powered $12B in royalties—and excels at turning proofs-of-concept into robust, production-grade pipelines processing petabytes/day. A pragmatist focused on impact, he drives incremental, low-friction solutions and has identified optimizations that cut $2M/year in GCP costs as a side project. Comfortable in ambiguous domains, he combines deep Scala and SQL expertise with cross-team leadership and incident management, routinely coaching engineers up in data practices. Notably, his background spans adtech streaming transformations and redesigns that shortened reconciliation cycles from months to days, reflecting a rare mix of domain knowledge and operational rigor.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Banchelor, Banchelor at Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University
Github Skills (113)
dataflow10
google-cloud10
streaming10
docker-compose10
batch10
kafka-consumer10
storm10
kafka10
apache10
java10
scala10
apache-kafka10
kafka-cluster10
beam9
big-data9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
lazyval/dif
Mar 2023 - Nov 2023
Comparing dataflow jobs to highlight runtime differences
Contributions:15 reviews, 59 PRs, 60 pushes in 7 months
lazyval/storm
Mar 2015 - Mar 2023
Contributions:2 pushes, 3 branches in 8 years 1 month
javastormapache-stormapache
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