Sonja Ericsson, a senior software engineer, has dedicated the past five years to her role at Spotify. For three of those years, she has been a part of the Data Platform team, where she focuses on empowering engineers to productively transform data into business value. Notably, she and her team have embraced the open-source workflow orchestration platform, Flyte, which has become a important product within their technology stack. She and the different teams she's been a part of have been recognized through internal awards at Spotify. Sonja has gained experience across a variety of areas, including data science, backend development, and data engineering. Before joining Spotify, she worked for different companies within the music, finance, and edtech industries.