High-scale delivery
Led Spotify Audience Network targeting work that enabled 238 campaigns and more than 577M impressions.
About
How I Work
Engineering leader focused on high-scale backend systems
I’m a Senior Software Engineer and Engineering Manager at Spotify, where I work on ad-serving systems, user targeting, reliability, and the cross-team execution required to ship safely at scale.
- Location: Denver, CO
- Age: 26
- Current: Spotify
- Degree: Bachelor of Science
- School: University of California, Berkeley
- Email: ecvick@berkeley.edu
I’ve led initiatives spanning more than 20 engineers, shipped systems serving hundreds of millions of impressions, and built low-latency services that materially reduced both infrastructure cost and response time. I enjoy the work where architecture, product judgment, and people leadership overlap, especially when the problem is ambiguous and the path forward needs to become clear.
That leadership thread started early: I completed Berkeley’s EECS program in three years alongside an IEOR minor and SCET certificate, progressed from analyst to project manager to senior advisor at CMG Strategy Consulting, and helped lead Cal Club Golf to its first back-to-back national tournament qualifications.
Performance & efficiency
Shipped a low-latency endpoint that cut p99 latency by 91% and reduced monthly data costs by roughly 98%.
Reliability by design
Built canary guardrails, expanded integration coverage beyond 100 tests, and strengthened configuration safety.
Technical leadership
Aligning stakeholders, mentoring engineers, and connecting teams and systems across organizational boundaries.
Engineering Stack
Java · Go · Python · TypeScript · JavaScript · SQL
Ad serving · user targeting · low-latency APIs · distributed systems
Canary testing · integration infrastructure · configuration validation · Google Cloud
Technical strategy · multi-team delivery · mentorship · stakeholder alignment
Interests
Golf & Golf Carts
Hammocking
Improv Violin
Hiking with Family
Powder Days
Lacrosse
Experience
Work, Research & Leadership
Professional Experience
Engineering Manager / Senior Software Engineer
December 2022 - Present
Spotify | Denver, CO
- Led end-to-end delivery of Spotify Audience Network targeting on Spotify Adserver, unblocking a 20+ engineer initiative and enabling 238 fully delivered campaigns and more than 577M impressions.
- Designed and shipped the low-latency AirHockey endpoint, reducing Nielsen table costs from approximately $337K to $6.6K per month and cutting p99 latency by 91%.
- Built ad-serving reliability guardrails, including canary infrastructure, more than 100 integration tests, and startup validation for prioritization configuration.
- Drove cross-team alignment, mentored and onboarded engineers, and connected the Megaphone and Spotify ad-serving domains as a go-to technical expert.
Software Engineer
August 2020 - December 2022
Carta | San Francisco, CA
- Led development of a graph-based authorization framework designed to improve page-load performance by more than 500% and reduce over- and under-access.
- Built customer- and support-facing cap table data-integrity tooling with a team of five engineers.
- Worked across Python and REST Framework backends and React, JavaScript, TypeScript, and HTML frontends while partnering directly with business and product leads.
Software Development Engineer Intern
May 2019 - August 2019
Amazon | Seattle, WA
- Automated an AWS Commerce Platform workflow used to create product lines for revenue mapping across AWS services.
- Reduced product-line creation from two months to two days while cutting the number of teams involved in half.
- Built Java APIs and service proxies plus an AngularJS interface, iterating on the product through user feedback.
Education, Research & Leadership
B.S. Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
August 2017 - May 2020
University of California, Berkeley | Berkeley, CA
Completed the degree in three years alongside a minor in Industrial Engineering & Operations Research and a Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology certificate.
Coursework included artificial intelligence, algorithms, internet architecture, database systems, data science, and engineering statistics.
Research Assistant
February 2018 - September 2019
Berkeley RISELab | Berkeley, CA
Built and deployed a carbon-efficient travel recommendation system using trip-pattern analysis, a personalized machine-learning pipeline, Yelp’s API, and encrypted AWS-hosted infrastructure.
Vice President
January 2018 - May 2020
Cal Club Golf Team | Berkeley, CA
Recruited and led the highest-performing team in club history, improved scores by more than 5%, and helped secure the club’s first back-to-back national tournament qualifications.
Analyst · Project Manager · Senior Advisor
August 2018 - May 2020
CMG Strategy Consulting | Berkeley, CA
Led analyst teams on projects for HP, Ripple, and Lyft, delivering market analysis, segmentation, and growth strategies across global markets.
Selected Recognition
2016 - 2019
Deloitte StartUp UC Berkeley Case Competition: 3rd place; Berkeley Early Admit; Chicago Tribune Athlete of the Year; Illinois State, Rohrabaugh, American Legion, and National AP Scholar recognition.
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