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class="heading-area"> </div>  <div class="person-info"> <div class="static-content"> <h2>Putting the Spotlight on our technical employees</h2> <p>My beat is a blog series that turns the spotlight towards technical employees across various desciplines and roles to showcase what a typical day as a Spotifier consists of.</p> </div> <div class="img-holder labs">  <img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/production-eng/1/2022/03/Header-Image_Chantal-Delfeld.png" class="attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" srcset="https://storage.googleapis.com/production-eng/1/2022/03/Header-Image_Chantal-Delfeld.png 1200w, https://storage.googleapis.com/production-eng/1/2022/03/Header-Image_Chantal-Delfeld-250x156.png 250w, https://storage.googleapis.com/production-eng/1/2022/03/Header-Image_Chantal-Delfeld-700x438.png 700w, https://storage.googleapis.com/production-eng/1/2022/03/Header-Image_Chantal-Delfeld-768x480.png 768w, 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But she lives thousands of miles away in Austin, Texas – with her husband, mother and two young children. </b></p> </div> </div>   <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"><p>7:00am</p></blockquote> <p>My early mornings are spent running about after my children – getting them dressed, giving them breakfast and putting on their sunscreen, so they’re all ready for the day ahead. At 8am, I drive my daughter to preschool, while my mom looks after my one-year-old son – she’s been living with us since the start of the pandemic and has been a huge help when it comes to family life and childcare.  </p> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"><p>8:30am</p></blockquote> <p>Back home after drop-off, I make myself a nice coffee, head to the home office we’ve built in our backyard and get started on my working day. I’m a full-stack engineer, focussing mostly on the backend. But I’m becoming ‘T-shaped’ – which means gaining a broad knowledge of certain areas and doing some frontend work too – and I really like the variety that brings.  </p> <p>I’ve been at Spotify six months now, working as part of a big team that deals with commerce-related projects. Our main product is a wallet that allows creators to add credit cards as payment. And right now, we’re improving our operations ahead of opening up in new markets – getting ourselves ready for the increased traffic and making sure we’ve got all the right learnings and monitoring in place for this exciting new phase. </p> <p>We’re also in the process of developing a middle layer between our frontend and backend services – a sort of gateway service that means frontend won’t ever have to deal with backend directly. We have a lot of dependencies with other services and this new gateway will help us integrate with them more easily. It’ll also make things more secure, so it’s a really great project to be part of. </p> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"><p>12:00pm</p></blockquote> <p>I take a half-hour break around noon and grab a few minutes with my mom and son while heating up some food for lunch. I usually eat at my desk though – I’m new to the world of commerce and take every chance to do additional reading or watch something that’s related to the field. </p> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"><p>12:30pm</p></blockquote> <p>In the afternoon, I tend to have a few more meetings, or I often pair with someone in our team and work through a certain task or issue together. It’s nice to have someone to communicate with in this way, since I work remotely and haven’t actually met any of my team in person! </p> <p>I can’t see myself moving to New York anytime soon, but what’s really great is that Spotify is running lots of workshops to help with remote working – I’m doing one called ‘Rethinking Communication in a Distributed World’ and another all about asynchronous communication. I’m really keen to make sure that my team know I’m there for them whenever they need me – despite the distance and the time difference. That’s super-important to me and I’m doing everything I can to make sure things run smoothly.</p> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"><p>3:30pm</p></blockquote> <p>Time to pick up my daughter from preschool and have a quick play with both children, before wrapping up a few last bits and bobs for work. When that’s all done, I make dinner for the kids and go through the usual bedtime madness – then, I sit down with my husband for dinner, get a little grown-up time and chat about the ups and downs of our days.</p> <p></p> <p></p> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-style-default"><img decoding="async" width="700" height="111" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/production-eng/1/2020/11/My-Beat-Breakdown-Engineering-700x111.png" alt="" class="wp-image-4060" srcset="https://storage.googleapis.com/production-eng/1/2020/11/My-Beat-Breakdown-Engineering-700x111.png 700w, https://storage.googleapis.com/production-eng/1/2020/11/My-Beat-Breakdown-Engineering-250x40.png 250w, https://storage.googleapis.com/production-eng/1/2020/11/My-Beat-Breakdown-Engineering-768x121.png 768w, https://storage.googleapis.com/production-eng/1/2020/11/My-Beat-Breakdown-Engineering-120x19.png 120w, https://storage.googleapis.com/production-eng/1/2020/11/My-Beat-Breakdown-Engineering.png 1525w" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" /></figure> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-style-default"><img decoding="async" width="700" height="595" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/production-eng/1/2022/03/Chantal-Delfeld_Weekly-Breakdown-700x595.png" alt="" class="wp-image-5169" srcset="https://storage.googleapis.com/production-eng/1/2022/03/Chantal-Delfeld_Weekly-Breakdown-700x595.png 700w, https://storage.googleapis.com/production-eng/1/2022/03/Chantal-Delfeld_Weekly-Breakdown-250x213.png 250w, https://storage.googleapis.com/production-eng/1/2022/03/Chantal-Delfeld_Weekly-Breakdown-768x653.png 768w, https://storage.googleapis.com/production-eng/1/2022/03/Chantal-Delfeld_Weekly-Breakdown-1536x1306.png 1536w, https://storage.googleapis.com/production-eng/1/2022/03/Chantal-Delfeld_Weekly-Breakdown-120x102.png 120w, https://storage.googleapis.com/production-eng/1/2022/03/Chantal-Delfeld_Weekly-Breakdown.png 1584w" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" /></figure> <p><em>You can hear more about Chantal’s life as a Spotify engineer on our new podcast <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/43cbJh4ccRD7lzM2730YK3">NerdOut@Spotify</a>.</em></p> Tags: <a href="https://engineering.atspotify.com/tag/backend/" rel="tag">backend</a><br><br> <p> Published by Spotify Engineering </p> </div> <div class="share-block"> <span class="title">Share this:</span> <ul class="share-link"> <li> <a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=Chantal Delfeld: Engineer   https://engineering.atspotify.com/2022/03/chantal-delfeld-engineer/" target="_blank"> <img src="https://engineering.atspotify.com/wp-content/themes/theme-spotify/images/twitter.svg" width="15"> </a> </li> <li> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https://engineering.atspotify.com/2022/03/chantal-delfeld-engineer/" target="_blank" onclick="window.open(this.href, 'fb', 'left=20,top=20,width=500,height=500,toolbar=1,resizable=0'); 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