# Ben Kogan

> Senior Data & Backend Engineer at Spotify

Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/benkogan

## Work Experience
### Senior Data & Backend Engineer — Live Events @ Spotify
Jan 2021 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area

### Senior Data & Backend Engineer — Delivery Platform @ Spotify
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | New York City Metropolitan Area
Building a platform for messaging hundreds of millions of Spotify users about content they love via email, push, and in-app messages.

### Data & Backend Engineer — Email Platform @ Spotify
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | New York City Metropolitan Area
Building a platform for messaging hundreds of millions of Spotify users about content they love via email.

### Software Engineer — Data Engineering Realtime Platform Team @ AppNexus
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | New York City Metropolitan Area
Worked on soft-realtime batch and streaming big data systems handling over 150 terabytes of data a day in C, Lua, and Java.

### Software Engineer — Application Performance Monitoring Team @ AppNexus
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | New York City Metropolitan Area
Developed methods of monitoring robustness and ensuring quality of AppNexus software projects.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Tunity
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | New York City Metropolitan Area
One of two general backend developers at a early-phase startup.


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Art History
Columbia University


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-31