About

Murat Ayan is a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer at Spotify with over 8 years of relevant experience. He is currently working on the Growth team, specifically on the Pre Authenticated Experience project, where he is responsible for delivering the best unauthenticated user experience for people who land on the Spotify welcome screen. He is also involved in building contextual bandit systems to achieve this goal. Prior to this, Murat worked on the Content Marketing project during the summer of 2019. He was responsible for developing heuristic-based, automated content ad generation. He also played a key role in the India Launch project from April 2018 to November 2019. Here, he worked on the localised personalisation experience of the Spotify music app for the Indian user base. This involved integrating the music language of the Indian music catalog to various Spotify systems, creating a new recommendation system around Bollywood soundtrack albums, and coordinating the tech effort across different engineering teams from different departments across Spotify. Murat’s previous experience includes working as a Software Engineer at Spotify, where he was responsible for creating and maintaining highly scalable and compliant systems for processing Premium Subscription accounting events and Netsuite ERP system integrations of these events. He also worked as a Software Engineer at Hazelcast, where he was responsible for integration and services. Murat holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Sabanci University and also attended Uppsala University for a brief period. He also holds a High School Diploma from T.C. Ziraat Bankası Balıkesir Science High School. His tech stack includes software engineering, recommendation systems, and integration. Overall, Murat is a highly accomplished Senior Software Engineer with a wealth of experience in the industry. He is a valuable asset to the Spotify team and has played a key role in the success of several projects.