Kristian Karl
Test & Dev Manager at Spotify
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Summary
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SeniorKristian Karl is an experienced engineering leader and Test & Dev Manager at Spotify, with over 14 years shaping reliable software and testing practices since joining the company in 2010. Based in Stockholm, he blends hands-on engineering management with a strong commitment to model-based testing, having founded GraphWalker and earlier led the mbt.tigris.org project. Kristian excels at building teams that deliver high-quality, scalable systems while driving open-source tooling that improves test automation and developer workflows. His career reflects a rare mix of long-term product stewardship at a major streaming platform and entrepreneurial initiative in specialized testing frameworks.
14 years of coding experience
Github Skills (47)
model-based-testing10
testing10
linux10
decode10
fsm-library10
hexdump9
json9
jq9
xml9
fsm9
graphql9
kotlin8
cli8
php8
performance-testing8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
KristianKarl-zz/OnkyoRemote
Mar 2013 - Jan 2014
Contributions:24 commits in 10 months
GraphWalker/graphwalker-example
Oct 2014 - Oct 2022
Contributions:121 commits, 17 PRs, 64 pushes in 8 years 1 month
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