Ruben Barilani
Engineering Manager at Spotify
Lombardy, Italy
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Top SchoolRuben Barilani is an engineering manager with 12 years of experience leading front-end and full-stack teams across fast-paced European tech companies, currently managing engineering at Spotify from Lombardy, Italy. He progressed through hands-on roles at Zalando—from frontend developer to acting Head of Engineering—demonstrating a rare combination of tactical coding fluency and strategic team leadership. Comfortable shipping product-facing UI and scaling engineering organizations, Ruben blends a developer’s mindset with people management to drive high-impact delivery. His approach is influenced by a playful, Zen-like philosophy—treating work and leisure as intertwined—which helps him cultivate motivated teams that enjoy building. Despite a non-traditional academic path, his steady progression into leadership reflects strong practical judgment and an ability to thrive in both startup and enterprise environments.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma Perito Informatico Information Technology, Diploma Perito Informatico Information Technology at I.T.I.S. Paleocapa
Italian, English
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Github Skills (157)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
rbarilani/eskip-match
Mar 2018 - Sep 2019
A package that helps you test skipper `.eskip` files routing matching logic
Contributions:4 releases, 56 PRs, 74 pushes in 1 year 5 months
testingeskipmatchingroutingskipper
zalando-incubator/zalando.github.io-dev
Jul 2015 - Jan 2018
Contributions:211 commits, 72 PRs, 205 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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