We're hiring an Engineering Manager in Client Platform at Spotify Engineering. If you're passionate about providing hundreds of mobile engineers with a stable CI experience, please apply. Bonus points if you know your way around and are excited by Bazel! lifeatspotify.com/jobs/engineeri…

Threads looks like the best chance we’ll have to have as much fun as we had over here. threads.net/@balestrapatri…

I recently got into making some art pieces, even though I’m in no way a very artistic person. I started with plaster art on canvas last week and ended up with AI generated abstract art today that can be printed and framed 😅 etsy.com/se-en/shop/pbs…

We backported the new Xcode 15 linker to our Xcode 14 builds and already see amazing results. In average it saves 7-10s in all our builds!

Some of the smartest people I know have been working on externalizing Spotify’s experimentation platform. It’s now available as a private beta to integrate in your apps and services. engineering.atspotify.com/2023/08/coming…

5 years at Spotify Engineering today. Half a decade already and still having so much fun! Looking forward to what the future holds.

Very excited to attend and speak at #BazelCon later this month in Munich. I'll be sharing some tips and tricks on how we improved our CI efficiency using bazel-diff at Spotify Engineering! See you there 🍻

We just published a new post to Spotify Engineering’s blog describing how we migrated the Spotify iOS app to build with Bazel over the last year and decreased our build times by up to 4x. I hope you’ll find it useful! engineering.atspotify.com/2023/10/switch…

21 days and counting…

I downloaded the MTA app a few weeks ago and was surprised to see such a high rating for a transport app. After using it a couple of times I understand why, it’s truly a beautiful app which uses all the right iOS APIs to make traveling really convenient. A pleasure to use.

Just saw a guy meditating in the Oculus at rush hour while Flo Rida was blasting on the mall speakers. Meditation has a whole different meaning in NYC.

We migrated Spotify's Android app — consisting of five million lines of Kotlin, Java, and C++ code — from Gradle to Bazel. Here’s how we did it: hubs.li/Q02_-k1S0

I absolutely love Copilot Money. I started using it 4 months ago and already got so much insights from it. It connects to basically all US bank institutions (credit cards, bank accounts, investments, etc.) to track expenses. I got this “2024 in review” experience today.

Every week, we release an updated version of the Spotify mobile app for iOS and Android — shipping hundreds of changes to 675 million people using all kinds of mobile devices.🚀 Here’s how we do it: hubs.li/Q03hQmrS0

Ever since I started developing my own iOS apps more than 12 years ago, this has been an incredible monopoly. Very happy to see that over the last decade many more people realized how bad the situation had become, and we needed changes. Glad fairness finally won.

Finally the Apple Watch gets a Notes app. One of my first ever apps got sherlocked after 10 years, I thought it would have been much sooner than today 🤣 apps.apple.com/us/app/notes-f…

Just published a short blog post with some recent thoughts about the possible effects of AI coding agents on the future of developer infrastructure and codebase growth. I’m curious to hear what others think! patrickbalestra.com/blog/2025/06/2…

We're excited to open-source sourcekit-bazel-bsp, a way to hopefully improve development for Apple platforms inside IDEs like VSCode and Cursor. If you're interested, get involved. We can't wait to see where this project goes! github.com/spotify/source…