Summary
Syamantak Mukhopadhyay is a seasoned engineering leader with 13–15 years of hands-on experience building large-scale, distributed and mission-critical platforms across payments, ad tech and media. Currently Director of Engineering at Spotify, he leads internal e-commerce and payments product areas, owning checkout, payin/payout APIs and developer tooling while previously scaling core back-office systems and marketing platforms. He combines deep backend expertise in Java/Scala, microservices, streaming (Kafka/Spark) and cloud (AWS/GCP) with a strong track record of establishing CI/CD and developer productivity practices. Comfortable switching between coding, architecture and people leadership, he has repeatedly built teams and operationalized migrations from on-prem to cloud at scale. Based in London, he brings a pragmatic focus on reliability and developer experience that helps translate complex domain rules (royalties, payments, ads) into robust, production-ready systems.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Computer Science, MSc Computer Science at University of Southampton
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Information Technology at Jadavpur University
English, Bengali