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Takshak Desai is a highly experienced software engineer currently serving as a Staff Backend Engineer at Spotify, focusing on distributed systems since April 2023. Prior to this role, Takshak held multiple positions at Twitter from November 2017 to March 2023, including Staff Software Engineer and Senior Software Engineer, where contributions included leading technical initiatives for the ads data platform and developing large-scale microservices for real-time ad traffic. Takshak began a career at The MathWorks from January 2012 to November 2017, working as a Software Engineer and Software Engineer in Test, focusing on developing user interfaces for the MATLAB Coder Toolbox and software development in C++. Earlier experience includes a graduate research position at The Robotics Institute and an engineering internship at The MathWorks. Takshak holds a Master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication from Nirma University.
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Spotify is an audio and media streaming service that hosts music, podcasts and tv shows. Founded in 2008, Spotify has grown to one of the largest streaming platforms in the world, offering over 70 million tracks to its 360+ million users across 170+ markets. They are headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden with offices in over a dozen countries. Spotify’s mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity—by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the opportunity to enjoy and be inspired by it. Spotify helps users to discover, manage, and share music on their phone, computer or tablet by browsing through the collections of friends, artists, and celebrities, by creating a radio station, or by curating their own playlists. A leader in revenue generation for the music industry, over 1,000 artists generated over $1 million on Spotify in 2021, 450 generations more than $2 million, and 130 generated over $5 million. Spotify also paid out over $1 billion dollars to publishing rights holders (songwriters and producers) in 2021.