Pia is Spotify’s Senior Director of Engineering, Backstage GM and Head of Platform Developer Experience, working tirelessly to provide the best experience for Spotify’s developers. She started her career as a backend engineer for 14 years working across telecom, pharma, retail, banking, and gaming. Half of that time was spent as a self employed contractor, where she began recognizing patterns in the challenges engineers were experiencing. This interest and strong belief that teams can be more effective and have more fun(!) led her to focus more and more on platform-oriented work. She was an early adopter of DevOps principles and pair-programming, and also led classes in clean code and test-driven development. Pia joined Spotify to lead the CI (Continuous Integration) platform and gradually expanded into other domains connected to developer experience and effectiveness. She led the team that built Backstage, where her focus was to increase the speed of iteration so that Spotify could build products faster. Today she leads the larger, cross-cutting developer experience initiatives at Spotify focused on creating an exceptional developer experience through the tools and infrastructure her team provides to every engineer at Spotify.