# Arlandis Word

> Engineering Manager

Location: Detroit Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/arlandis

## Work Experience
### Engineering Manager - Personalization (Search) @ Spotify
Jan 2026 – Present
Managing an interdisciplinary team of Backend and ML engineers.

### Senior Software Engineer - Cost Engineering @ Spotify
Jan 2022 – Jan 2026
My team manages a collection of data pipelines and web apps to surface cloud costs to other engineering teams throughout Spotify. I primarily work on:
- data processing jobs (Scala, Google Dataflow)
- workflow orchestration (Python, Luigi)
- SQL analysis and scheduled jobs (Google BigQuery)

"In the top 10% of folks I've worked with at my time at Spotify" - Spotify Staff Engineer

### Staff Software Engineer @ FireHydrant
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
Built our first integration with MS Teams along with 2 other engineers. Helped level up colleagues in Golang.

### Staff Software Engineer @ Remind
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021
Worked on everything under the sun helping build and maintain systems used by millions of students and educators across the US. Some highlights:
- First tech lead for Remind Coaching, building the MVP and initial team.
- Designed and built Customized Messaging, a premium feature for districts.
- Served as a member of technical leadership team, helping define best practices and processes for the engineering org

Worked in Ruby, Typescript, Golang, and Rust.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Hireology
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018
I spec/build new projects with my team, improve existing projects, and share knowledge via pairing and architecture reviews. 

I've worked on a lot, including:
- internal tools
- high-impact, in-app features
- brainstorming for new business units
- vendor integrations and planning
- microservice architecture and implementation
- pub/sub implementation

### Ruby Engineer @ Hireology
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017
At Hireology, I've worked on third-party system integrations in Ruby, new React-based interfaces, and refactoring at the database and application code layers to improve quality and remove bugs.

I've also worked to help refine our product and engineering processes and learned from members of multiple departments about how our business operates at a more holistic level.

### Software Craftsman @ 8th Light
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Greater Chicago Area
At 8th Light, I spent most of my time working with one large client, but managed to learn a lot.

* I worked as part of a large team at a Chicago-based ecommerce company. The primary challenges there were working in a SOA environment where we needed fast response times and little downtime. We worked in JRuby, Rails, and Clojure.
* On another client, I briefly worked on a web application that utilized Clojure and Clojurescript.
* I co-mentored an 8th Light apprentice for 8 months who then went on to become a skilled 8th Light craftsman.

### Software Apprentice @ 8th Light
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Greater Chicago Area


## Education
### CSI Program
Bradfield School of Computer Science
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022

### Master of Business Administration - MBA in Business Administration and Management, General
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017

### Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management
Western Governors University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/arlandisw

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JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/arlandis/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-22