Engineering Manager - Royalties Team

Stem started out as a digital distributor for music and has expanded to handle royalty accounting and payments. Royalties are a huge pain point for both music labels and artists. Many artists struggle to understand how much their music has earned and labels often have difficulty handling their finances.

• Launched Stem's new royalty accounting product for music labels, Tone
• Managed a small team of software engineers responsible for artist royalty statements
• Collaborated with royalty accountants to build automated reconciliation tools

Senior Software Engineer

• Co-wrote the backend code for Stem's "recoupment" feature, which allows the owner of a track to recoup costs before splitting the profits with their collaborators
• Established Stem's accounting ledger tracking artist earnings, handling millions of dollars of earnings and payments per month
• Conducted technical interviews as our engineering team expanded from 4 or 5 developers to around 20

Tech Stack: Python, Django, PostgreSQL, DuckDB

Software Engineer

• Automated mapping sales report items to Stem's music catalog and tracking mapping errors
• Updated Stem's distribution backend to handle more flexible delivery requirements, giving Stem clients access to over 30 new streaming platforms
• Initiated Stem's testing culture, encouraging our team to write tests for new code
• Reduced artist metadata errors by 90% for Stem clients on Spotify and Apple Music by building an artist matching tool to link Stem artists with their Spotify/Apple Music profiles

Tech Stack: Javascript, React, Python, Django, PostgreSQL

Web Developer

Built custom websites for friends, musicians & artists. This is when I first started coding! Some examples of my early work:

• dannyfischer.com.au
• thomaswaltrichmusic.com
• theocarbo.com

Tech Stack: Vue.js, React, AWS

Audio Software Developer

Wrote software for live musical performances. Made music with code and designed software-based musical instruments. A friend and I would go busking with my Pure Data and SuperCollider patches, lots of fun that really inspired me to pursue software as a career.

Tech Stack: SuperCollider, PureData, Max/MSP