Brian Christensen

About Brian Christensen

Software developer and engineering leader

Experience

1. Staff Software Engineer

   Spotify

   May 2013 — Present

   Advanced from Engineer II to Staff Software Engineer, building Android features for social, ads, and creator missions, driving initiatives to improve testing practices and code quality, representing engineering in strategic cross-functional planning, and facilitating forums for engineers to coordinate and grow. Software development: Recent highlights include developing a loosely coupled navigation library with an elegant API, and simplifying a multi-screen onboarding flow driven by several disparate event sources Led development of the foundational technical strategy for the new artist app Worked on the user profile, follow, pre-roll video ads, banner ads, promoted tracks, and concerts in the consumer app, and the playlists editor, about page editor, profile, and stats pages in the artist app Contributed backend work on mobile client endpoints and backend driven views Leadership: 2 years facilitating a regular forum for Android engineers from across the company to discuss common concerns, build skills, align on conventions and architecture, and network 1.5 years driving an initiative to establish testing practices for our mobile clients, and developing a system for holding ourselves accountable for following those practices 1 year leading a forum for senior engineers and leadership to map the strategic goals of the mission to overarching technical initiatives, and provide guidance to engineers doing related foundational work various formal and informal roles as a technical lead on features teams Public Speaking: Scalable Android Development: How to work like your team\'s gonna be huge. Droidcon NYC, Sep. 2014 Evolving Android at Spotify. New York Android Developers Meetup, Dec. 2013 Community: Created and led a community for employees to play music together, and developed a regular employee music showcase, which gained the highest engagement of any social event, and served as a powerful recruiting tool

Skills

• Android
• Mercurial
• Sqlite
• Product Development
• Mobile Product Development
• User Experience
• Agile Methodologies
• Git
• Agile
• Xml
• Mobile Interaction Design
• Oracle Certified Professional Java Programmer
• Maven
• Software Development
• Junit
• Java