Robert is a Senior Product Manager at Spotify with a background in engineering. He graduated from the University of Waterloo in Canada with a focus on distributed systems and optimisation. Upon graduation, he worked as an infrastructure engineer for LinkedIn before relocating to Sweden to join Spotify in 2016. After working on data collection as an engineer he transitioned to the product role on his team. He has led products for multiple teams of infrastructure, data, and mobile engineers within the mission of making Data Collection at Spotify a solved problem. He has co-authored blog posts about Spotify’s data collection infrastructure and has spoken at Google Next UK and the Product Management Festival. Earlier this year he started the Product Internals podcast and blog with Arvid Olovsson which aims to be an honest and humble reflection of starting out in Product Management, targeting the niche of internal-facing and platform products.
