Mårten Gustafson
Senior Staff Engineer - Core Infrastructure at Spotify
Visby, Sweden
Summary
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SeniorMårten Gustafson is a Senior Staff Engineer with 16 years of experience leading core infrastructure and growth engineering efforts at Spotify and a history of senior technical roles across major Nordic media and tech firms. He blends hands-on backend craftsmanship—contributing to notable open-source projects like Dropwizard and dropwizard-metrics—with strategic work on architecture, ops, and organizational process. Known for driving zero-downtime deployments, continuous delivery, and cloud re-architecture, he pairs technical depth with hiring, budgeting, and cross-organizational influence. Based in Visby, Sweden, he also advises startups and has a knack for turning rapid prototypes into horizontally scalable production systems. Less obvious: he repeatedly operates at the intersection of people, process and platform, acting as a trusted aide-de-camp to CTOs while still shipping core library features used in production.
16 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
English, Swedish
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Github Skills (23)
apidoc10
testing10
reporting-tools10
java10
javas10
junit10
api10
github-api10
embedded-reporting10
rest10
meter10
jtest10
metric10
json9
servlet9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
dropwizard/metrics
Mar 2011 - Mar 2018
:chart_with_upwards_trend: Capturing JVM- and application-level metrics. So you know what's going on.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 commits, 4 PRs, 2 comments in 7 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Mårten primarily contributed to the core functionality of the dropwizard/metrics repository. Their work included modifying the MetricsServlet to serve JSON content, adjusting dependencies, and implementing features like customized metric names and a hook for the health check registry. Further contributions involved the addition of a Stoppable interface to support stopping metrics and refactoring the interaction with metrics using the MetricsProcessor interface, resulting in more flexible metric handling.
dropwizard-metricscapturingchartjvmtrend
hub4j/github-api
Apr 2020 - Oct 2020
Java API for GitHub
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 5 PRs, 6 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Mårten primarily focused on enhancing the `hub4j/github-api` library by implementing new features related to GitHub issue events. This included adding support for specific attributes associated with issue events, particularly those related to milestones, labels, and assignee changes. The user also contributed to maintaining the library by merging branches and updating related dependencies and tests. They also added functionality for downloading zip and tar archives of repositories and addressed GitHub documentation changes.
java-apijavagithub-api-v3apiclient-library
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