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Sophie Turner
Engineering Manager — Backend Platform
sophie.turner@email.com +46 70 456 7890 Stockholm, Sweden linkedin.com/in/sophieturner-em github.com/sophieturner
Professional Summary

Engineering manager with 8 years in the industry (5 as IC, 3 in management) at Spotify Stockholm. Currently leads a team of 9 backend and platform engineers. Delivered three major platform migrations on time and within scope, including a cross-region GCP infrastructure overhaul and a Java 8 → 17 service modernisation affecting 60+ microservices. Balances strong IC background with people-first management style; 0 attrition in 18 months.

Management Snapshot
9 Direct reports (4 senior, 3 mid, 2 junior)
3 / 3 Major migrations delivered on time
0% Team attrition over 18 months
4.7 / 5 Avg 360° manager score (2025)
Tech Stack
Java Kotlin GCP Terraform Kubernetes Pub/Sub BigQuery Dataflow Spring Boot Prometheus
Experience
Engineering Manager — Backend Platform Feb 2023 – Present
Spotify, Stockholm
  • Lead a 9-person squad responsible for Spotify's internal service mesh, deployment tooling, and cross-service configuration platform.
  • Delivered a cross-region GCP infrastructure migration (EU West → multi-region active-active) in 5 months — zero customer-facing incidents during cutover.
  • Ran a 6-month Java 8 → 17 modernisation across 60+ microservices; all updated without breaking API contracts. Reduced JVM memory overhead by 18% on average.
  • Introduced quarterly individual growth plans for all 9 reports; 2 senior engineers promoted to Staff since programme launch.
  • Defined team OKRs that cut mean time to deploy from 22 min to 9 min across the platform squad.
Senior Software Engineer → Tech Lead Jun 2020 – Jan 2023
Spotify, Stockholm
  • Tech-led Spotify's podcast metadata platform (Kotlin/Spring Boot); responsible for schema design, API governance, and on-call runbook.
  • Migrated podcast ingestion pipeline from batch to streaming (Pub/Sub + Dataflow), reducing metadata freshness from 6 hours to under 4 minutes.
  • Coordinated cross-squad dependency planning for the podcast discovery redesign (involving 5 squads); launched on schedule in Q2 2022.
Software Engineer Aug 2017 – May 2020
King, Stockholm
  • Built and maintained Java backend services for in-game event scheduling in Candy Crush Saga; system handled 4M daily active users.
  • Introduced Terraform for infrastructure-as-code in the live-ops team, replacing manual GCP console provisioning; cut environment setup time by 70%.
Education
MSc Computer Science — Distributed Systems Sep 2015 – Jun 2017
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm — Grade: A (Distinction)
BSc Computer Engineering Sep 2012 – Jun 2015
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm — Top 10% of cohort
Leadership & Extras

Spotify Internal Engineering Leadership Programme (2023 cohort) · Speaker, SREcon Europe 2024 — "Platform migrations without the pain" · Mentor, Women in Tech Stockholm network (2022–present)