Marcus Better
Senior Staff Engineer at Spotify
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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RockstarMarcus Better is a Senior Staff Engineer in Boston with 18 years building scalable backend systems, currently leading architecture for Spotify’s algorithmic playlists and personalized listening experiences. He designed the system behind Spotify’s AI DJ and has driven backend work across products like Daily Mix and voice search, blending data-heavy engineering with product-focused system design. Marcus excels at taking complex distributed systems apart and reassembling them for resilience and scale, often translating research-grade models into production services. His career reflects deep expertise in recommendation and personalization pipelines and a knack for turning messy data into reliable user-facing features.
18 years of coding experience
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
spotify/hdfs2cass
May 2013 - Feb 2017
Hadoop mapreduce job to bulk load data into Cassandra
Contributions:17 commits, 9 PRs, 11 pushes in 3 years 9 months
bulk-loadercassandrahadoop-mapreduce
marcusb/org.openhab.binding.zwave
Jan 2018 - Jan 2024
Contributions:6 pushes, 4 branches in 6 years 1 month
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