Manuel Burghard
Staff Engineer at Spotify
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolManuel Burghard is a Staff Engineer based in Munich with 13 years of hands-on software development experience, currently scaling systems at Spotify after progressing from Senior Engineer. He holds both a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Computer Science from the Technical University of Munich and brings deep product engineering experience from long tenures at Quartett mobile and internships at Apple. Manuel combines frontline implementation skills with architectural thinking, having advanced through roles that span mobile engineering to platform-level responsibilities. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who balances shipping features with maintaining long-term code health. Though primarily product-focused, his career path shows a consistent thread of mentorship and ownership across growing engineering teams.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science at Technical University of Munich
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Github Skills (58)
programming-language10
protocol-buffers10
serialization10
xcode10
tvos10
bazel-rules10
bazel10
swift10
watchos10
protobuf10
marshalling9
animation9
ios9
ios-library9
visionos9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mjburghard/rules_apple
Feb 2023 - Dec 2025
Bazel rules to build apps for Apple platforms.
Contributions:8 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 10 months
mjburghard/Mobius.swift
Feb 2024 - Mar 2026
A functional reactive framework for managing state evolution and side-effects [Swift implementation]
Contributions:5 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 1 month
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