Hey.

I'm Patrick Balestra and I currently live in New York. 🗽

I work at Spotify as a Staff Engineer where I spend my time improving the developer experience for engineers through the use of monorepos, Bazel, efficient CI and IDE tools and much more.

You can find some of my work on the Spotify's Engineering blog or on the NerdOut @ Spotify podcast:

• Building Apps at Spotify Scale
• Switching Build Systems, Seamlessly
• Introducing XCMetrics: Our All-in-One Tool for Tracking Xcode Build Metrics
• How We Gave Superpowers to Our macOS CI
• How Spotify halved build times with just one script

I also gave a few talks at various conferences:

• Improving CI efficiency with Bazel querying and bazel-diff - BazelCon 2023
• XCMetrics - The All-In-One Solution to Track Xcode Build Metrics - iOS Conf SG 2021

I love contributing to open-source projects on GitHub and I regularly contribute to the Bazel build system and its ecosystem.

I grew up in Switzerland and graduated with a Bachelor in Informatics from the University of Lugano in 2018.

I write on my blog, follow me on Twitter or feel free to contact me via email.