Yani Metaxas
Senior Engineer at Spotify
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolYani Metaxas is a Senior Engineer with 12 years of experience building data-driven developer platforms and analytics tooling, currently shaping Spotify’s Workbench and maintaining Lexikon, the company’s Backstage data discovery system. She has driven data-layer migrations, built autocomplete and search improvements for analytics workflows, and prototyped generative-AI solutions like a Slack bot that maps natural language questions to data endpoints. Comfortable across backend services, big data pipelines, and cloud dev environments, she pairs strong system design with a pragmatic automation-first mindset: "everything that can be automated, will be automated." Based in New York, she combines product-focused engineering with hands-on delivery, having led payments, reporting, and compliance-related pipelines earlier in her career. An early founder and long-time contributor to internal platform tooling, she brings both startup grit and enterprise-scale reliability to developer and data experiences.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Software Engineering of Distributed Systems, Master’s Degree Software Engineering of Distributed Systems at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologySwedish Language, Swedish Language at FolkuniversitetetBachelor’s Degree Computer Science and Technology, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science and Technology at University of Peloponnese
Greek, English, Swedish
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Github Skills (12)
double9
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electron9
typescript9
visual-studio-code8
microsoft8
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
imetaxas/casino
Nov 2014 - Dec 2016
Contributions:4 commits, 2 pushes in 2 years 1 month
imetaxas/double-entry-bookkeeping-api
Dec 2013 - Feb 2018
A library of the Double-entry bookkeeping concept which is downloadable from the Central Repository.
Contributions:1 release, 13 commits, 13 PRs in 4 years 2 months
javadoublebookkeepingdouble-entry-bookkeeping
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