Samuel Kohonen
Senior Staff Engineer at Spotify
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSamuel Kohonen is a Senior Staff Engineer based in New York with a decade of software engineering experience, all rooted in a long-running career at Spotify where he progressed from summer intern to senior staff. He specializes in architecting and scaling backend systems for a global music platform, blending hands-on coding with strategic technical leadership. His trajectory reflects deep institutional knowledge of product-facing infrastructure, continuous delivery, and cross-functional collaboration across multiple Spotify engineering tiers. With academic foundations in computer science from the University of Turku and early research experience, he brings a methodical, research-informed approach to practical engineering problems. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex requirements into resilient, production-ready solutions while mentoring teams through architectural evolution. An often-overlooked strength is his longevity at a single large product organization, which gives him rare perspective on long-term system health and incremental modernization.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Turun yliopisto - University of Turku
Github Skills (56)
archiving10
pitr10
recovery10
openstack-swift10
blob-store10
backup10
infrastructure10
postgresql9
python9
google-cloud-storage9
dx9
replication9
microservices9
helios9
service-catalog8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
deverant/dotfiles
Sep 2015 - Feb 2025
Contributions:77 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 6 months
deverant/helios
Mar 2016 - Sep 2020
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 7 months
containersorchestrationcontainer-orchestrationdockerdocker-container
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