www.negociosnow.com
28 October 2022
Age: 30
Title: Engineering Manager
Name of Organization: Spotify
Catalina Laverde is an enginee-
ring manager at Spotify. As a te-
chnologist, Catalina takes a lead
role in improving the efficacy
of recommendations on the
Home screen of Spotify's mas-
sively scalable mobile appli-
cation with more than 400 mi-
llion users globally. As a change
agent, senior management has
called upon her to take owner-
ship of enterprise-wide initia-
tives, including leading com-
pliance efforts for Global Data
Protection Regulations (GDPR),
publishing engineering Code
Review Principles, implemen-
ting company-wide reliability
exercises, and developing cost/
benefit financial assessments.
Professionally, she has a passion
for quality and a track record
of success leading ambiguous
mandates requiring broad
stakeholder alignment, colla-
boration, and buy-in. In the
community, Catalina dedicates
herself to mentoring and advo-
cating for women in technology
in public, nonprofit and corpo-
rate forums, with a particular
emphasis on Latinas
Catalina Laverde
Improving
Music Recs
