Our growing lineup of speakers consists of many figures in the Scala community representing some of the awesome technologies advancing the field today.
Northwestern University
Broad
Software Architect, Polyglot Developer, Zouk Dancer, Climber and Hardcore Gamer. Co-Founder and CTO @ http://broad.app
EPAM
I am a Solution Architect working with Scala for more than 5 years following mainly FP principals. In my free time I play my guitar and read about astronomy.
VirtusLab/ScalaCenter
Tomasz is the lead Metals maintainer and works at VirtusLab in close cooperation with Scala Center to improve Metals so that it can become a valuable tool for the Scala community. Mainly a Scala developer with a tooling background, he sharpened his skills trying to improve tooling for one of the largest Scala codebases in the world.
INNOQ
Daniel is a senior consultant at INNOQ. He is particularly interested in functional programming and published several Scala books, most recently the series Scala from Scratch.
Lunatech
Chris Kipp is a Software Engineer at Lunatech. He's an avid fan of Neovim, simple tech, and enjoys working on tooling. He's one of the current maintainers of Metals, the Scala language server and an active open source contributor.
BBVA
Emiliano is a senior researcher at the BBVA Innovation Labs department, focused mainly on deep learning projects and their adoption across the company.
Treasure Data
Taro L. Saito is a principal software engineer at Treasure Data, Ph.D. of computer science at the University of Tokyo. He has built a cloud database service at Treasure Data that is processing over millions of queries every day. He also has developed several open-source projects for Scala, including Airframe, various sbt plugins (sbt-sonatype, sbt-pack), etc.
GFT Technologies SE
Kai Gellien is a senior IT consultant at GFT. His focus is on agile methods, object-oriented and functional software development and project infrastructure. In his spare time he likes to work as book reviewer, e.g. for "Functional Programming in Scala".
Vincent has a background in software engineering and law. He works as an independent contractor in The Netherlands, programming mainly in Scala for four years, and has a passion for both learning and teaching.
Inpher
Manohar is a Senior Software Engineer at Inpher, a company developing solutions for secure computing. He has a PhD in Programming Languages (advised by Martin Odersky) and worked on Program Synthesis tools as a post-doc at MSR India.
Inpher
Jakob is a Software Engineer at Inpher. His introduction to Scala was in its 1.x days, and he has been using it ever since.
A passionate software developer fighting to build great software. During his career he has worked on every kind of system from tiny scripts to multi-million line behemoths and every kind of organisation from startup to multinational.
Lightbend
Renato is a software developer at Lightbend where he works in the Akka Team. Scala aficionado since 2009, he has been hacking in Scala and related technologies for fun and profit. He has a special interest for Event Sourcing/CQRS, DDD and Microservices Architectures. He's the founder of BeScala (Belgian Scala User Group).
Disney Streaming
Long time Scala developer, maintainer of weaver-test, contributor to open-source projects, animal lovers.
Inner Product
Noel is a Scala consultant at Inner Product and Underscore, where he helps teams succeed with Scala.
Scala Center
Software engineer at Scala Center. Currently working on tooling and more specially on Scalafix, Scaladex and Scala3-migrate.
S4N
I am an Electronics Engineer working as a Tech Lead at S4N (Colombia). Enterprise software development by day, music programming by night.
Databricks
Haoyi graduated from MIT with a degree in Computer Science and Engineering, and since then has been a major contributor to the Scala community. His open source projects have over 10,000 stars on Github, and are downloaded over 7,000,000 times a month. Haoyi has used Scala professionally to build distributed backend systems, programming languages, high-performance web applications, and much more. Haoyi writes a blog about Scala and other technical topics at www.lihaoyi.com
Packlink
I am a passionate software engineer for almost 15 years and I've gone through all kinds of companies as part of its evolution. From newborn startups to companies with thousands of workers. I love functional programming, Maths and above all Mountains. I am still studying, both things in the Software world (https://medium.com/@juaneto), as more arcane matters as Mathematics and Philosophy. Although I dedicate most of my free time climbing.
47 Degrees
Ryan is a Senior Scala Engineer at 47 Degrees. He co-maintains Scala libraries such as Pure AWS (a collection of AWS clients for Cats Effect) and Combos (a validation helper library) with Rewards Network.
Canal+
I'm a lead Scala developer at Canal+ and a functional programming enthusiast. I like to write safe, business-driven applications and systems using statically-typed FP. I also love cinema, roller coasters and all kinds of games :)
SoftwareMill
Scala developer at SoftwareMill devoted to doing things the right way. Leader of Zielona Góra JUG and co-organiser of the Greenfield Conference. After hours, she enjoys biking, gardening, and reading long books.
Software engineer, self taught career changer, passionate about helping others do the same.
INNOQ
Lars is a consultant with INNOQ in Munich, Germany. They are known as one of the founders of the Typelevel initiative which is dedicated to providing principled, type-driven Scala libraries in a friendly, welcoming environment.
JustEat Takeaway
Tamer is a Principal Engineer working in the Data Infrastructure space. Interested in Functional programming, Distributed Systems, and Data In Motion.
Hopper and Escalate Software
Winner of the inaugural Phil Bagwell Award for Service to the Scala Community and with over fourteen years of experience in Scala development as well as being a member of Java Posse, Dick Wall is a renowned speaker and trainer in the application of Scala. He is a Geographical Information System specialist using Scala at Hopper, Inc., CEO of Escalate Software and previous co-host on Scalawags Podcast. Dick has rediscovered his love of GIS combined with the power of the Scala type system, and wants to share his experiences of writing APIs to simplify that subject for others.
Author of Scala.js, the Scala to JavaScript compiler. Technical Director of the Scala Center.
Software Architect, Polyglot Developer, Zouk Dancer, Climber and Hardcore Gamer. CTO @ http://broad.app
Scala developer making the world more efficient by working on tooling. Working at @virtuslab as a contributor for Scala Center @scala_lang
Exploring the boundaries of programming, usually with Scala. Interned @ { @google , @facebook , @apollographql , @khanacademy , @learnraga , @coursera } | EECS @ Cal
Deputy Director for the Msc Environmental Data Science and Machine Learning at Imperial College London
I'm Daniel, a software engineer from Berlin, Germany. I'm a senior consultant at INNOQ and co-organizer of ScalaBridge Berlin, the Berlin chapter of the ScalaBridge organization.
Maintainer of Monix and Kraków Scala User Group co-organizer. Interested in FP and Concurrency. Works at @SwissBorg
Miles has been doing stuff with Scala for more than a decade, currently with Underscore Consulting. He is a cofounder of Typelevel and his best known project, the Scala generic programming library shapeless, is the weapon of choice wherever boilerplate needs to be scrapped or arities abstracted over.
Ph.D. student at LAMP working on metaprogramming for Dotty. Have been involved with the LAMP and Scala/Scala.js/Dotty since 2013.
Bill Venners is president of Artima, Inc., provider of Scala consulting, training, books, and tools
Chris Kipp is a Software Engineer at Lunatech that came into the Scala world from JavaScript. He's an avid fan of Vim and simple software, and enjoys working on tooling.
Will Sargent is an ex-Lightbend developer with a long list of blog posts about logging and a deep interest in minimizing the amount of time he spends in debugging code and resolving production issues
Roksolana Diachuk works as a Big Data Engineer at Captify. She is a speaker at technical conferences and meetups, one of the Women Who Code Kyiv leads and mentors. She is passionate about Big Data, Scala, and Kubernetes and she always loves to learn something new. Her hobbies include building technical topics around fairytales and discovering new cities.s
Working at Morgan Stanley since 2000. James’ team provides a platform that is used across the firm to build applications. The platform is built on Scala and as a result, James has been involved in a number of Scala initiatives including slick, compiler optimisation, conferences, and community groups. The Scala language and the community have and continue to be a strong influence on James and his platform work.
CTO at VirtusLab, spent most part of last decade on software engineering with JVM/Scala and distributed system
Scala 3 team lead at Virtuslab. He loves Scala and has been using it for over 10 years.
Daniela is a Senior Software Engineer at Morgan Stanley. She is an active contributor to the Scala Community, author of the book 'Get Programming with Scala' by Manning, and maintainer of open source projects (the most popular ones are twitter4s and random-data-generator).
Andrew is a software engineer at Morgan Stanley. Andrew spent fifteen years developing financial trading systems in Java and Scala before more recently moving to a role building platforms and build tools intended for use by other developers.
Valerie has been a software developer at Morgan Stanley in Montreal for 5 years. She works on developer tools for a large Scala monorepo, with a focus on streamlining the code contribution processes.
Gjeta is a developer on the core platform team. She joined Morgan Stanley five years ago and has since worked on all aspects of the platform, most recently focusing on profiler-guided optimization, smarter cache reuse, and core performance. Gjeta has been volunteering to teach GCSE Computer Science at local schools since she joined the firm, and has travelled to Ghana twice as a volunteer for Global Code. She is a TechWomen100 award winner and has previously presented our platform at Scala Exchange and Scala Days.
James Ward is a nerd / software developer who shares what he learns with others through presentations, blogs, demos, and code. After over two decades of professional programming, he is now a self-proclaimed Typed Pure Functional Programming zealot but often compromises on his ideals to just get stuff done. After spending too many sleepless nights in data centers repairing RAID arrays, he now prefers higher-level cloud abstractions with appropriate escape hatches. James is a huge Open Source proponent, hoping to never get burned by lock-in again.