Meet the speaker:

Jonny Brooks-Bartlett

Senior Machine Learning Engineer,

Spotify

Jonny currently works as a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Spotify working on improving the search functionality on the app.

Prior to this he was a data scientist at Deliveroo working in several different areas including personalised restaurant recommendations on the consumer app, menu classification and fraud detection. Before that, Jonny also worked as a data scientist at News UK where he was responsible for building machine learning models to aid editors with the creation and promotion of news articles.

Outside of his work as an engineer Jonny has recently become a father to a beautiful little girl and spends most of his free time trying to figure out how to be a good daddy. He also tries to juggle this with a love of high intensity fitness challenges.

Jonny previously played American football for 9 years, and now is a keen functional fitness competitor. Jonny has a Master’s of Mathematics degree from the University of Southampton and a DPhil from the University of Oxford in mathematical x-ray crystallography.

Talks & Content

2022

Jonny Brooks-Bartlett – Hello, Is It Me You’re Looking For? Improving Spotify Search

When a Spotify user types a query into the search bar it sets off a cascade of algorithms which ultimately ends in the user being shown a set of music and/or podcast results.