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David Murgatroyd is an experienced engineering leader currently serving as the Engineering Lead (Director, ML Eng) at Spotify since November 2016, overseeing a team that enhances Spotify's personalization through advanced machine learning and platform development. Murgatroyd has previously held several roles within Spotify, including Engineering Lead (Sr Eng Mgr) and Machine Learning Chapter Lead, where contributions included engineering leadership for the Personalization Platform and alignment of machine learning efforts across the organization. Prior to Spotify, Murgatroyd was VP of Engineering at Basis Technology, directing teams in natural language processing, and has also held various technical positions in notable firms such as Unveil Technologies and Wildfire Communications, Inc. Murgatroyd holds a Master of Philosophy in Computer Speech and Language Processing from the University of Cambridge and dual bachelor's degrees in Computer Science and Computational and Applied Mathematics from Rice University.
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Spotify
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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.