Scala Senior Staff Engineer Worthing
Pragmatic Software Engineer with a focus on functional programming and delivering results. Experienced in working within Agile teams, taking on leadership and ownership when required. Proficient in Scala, Java, TypeScript, Python, and Elm, with extensive experience building reliable and scalable web services on the JVM platform and in the cloud using microservices architecture. Familiar with technologies including Cats, ZIO, Play Framework, Akka, Kubernetes, and AWS services.
Skills
- ADFS 2.0
- Adobe InDesign
- Airflow
- Akka
- angularjs
- Ansible
- Apache Felix
- AWS ApiGateway
- AWS CDK
- AWS CodePipeline
- AWS Lambda
- AWS SQS
- AWS StepFunctions
- Azure Apps
- Bash
- Castor
- Cats
- Cordova
- CSS
- Docker
- DynamoDB
- Eclipse
- ElasticSearch
- Elm
- ES6
- Freemarker
- GEF
- Grafana
- Hadoop
- HBase
- Hibernate
- HTML5
- Http4s
- Jasmine
- Java
- javascript
- JAX-RS
- Jenkins
- JMX
- JPA
- json4s
- JSP
- Karma
- Kibana
- Kinesis
- kotlin
- Ktor
- Kubernetes
- Localstack
- MapR
- Maven
- MySQL
- Next.js
- Node.js
- OAuth 2.0
- OpenID Connect
- OpenStack
- OracleDB
- OSGi
- PhoneGap
- Play Framework
- Python
- React.js
- Reflux
- REST
- S3
- SAML 2.0
- SBT
- Scala
- Scalastest
- Scalatra
- SNMP
- SOAP
- Spark
- Splunk
- Spring
- Spring Boot
- Spring MVC
- SQL Server
- Struts/Tiles
- TeamCity
- Temporal
- Tomcat
- TypeScript
- Vagrant
- Webflow
- WebLogic
- XSL
- YUI 2
- ZIO
Experience
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May 2023 - Sept 2025
Senior Staff Engineer at Meridian North America, Inc.
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Senior Staff Engineer role involved designing and building an international remittances system backend from scratch, including external partner integrations, testing, deployment pipelines, and cloud infrastructure as code.
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Nov 2022 - Mar 2023
Senior Scala Developer at Disney Streaming
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Senior Scala Developer role involved contributing to a seven-developer team responsible for core microservices that ingest, transform, and serve over one million images, supporting the Disney+ user experience. The team autonomously develops and operates all services in the AWS cloud.
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Nov 2019 - Nov 2022
Tech Lead, Senior Scala Developer at HMRC Digital
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Lead Scala Developer role involved leading the technical development of microservices on the MDTP platform, connecting to Home Office systems and supporting Customs Traders. The cross-functional team included up to 15 members: developers, QA, scrum master, project manager, business analyst, UX designer, and user researcher.
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Oct 2021 - Dec 2021
Senior Scala Developer at MOIA GmbH
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Senior Scala Developer role involved working remotely on a scrum team to develop a new financial feature enabling pre-payments and coupon acceptance.
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May 2019 - Oct 2019
Lead Scala/Big Data Developer at KPIT Technologies for BMW AG
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Role involved leading and developing within a cross-functional team to build a data platform for autonomous driving. A large MapR and Spark-based cluster ingested, sanitized, and transformed over 15PB of sensor data, including camera images, lidar, and radar, into multiple formats and streams for data and AI scientists to train and validate autonomous driving models.
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Mar 2017 - Apr 2019
Tech Lead, Senior Scala Developer at HMRC Digital
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Senior Scala Developer role involved leading a team of 4–10 developers and QAs to build and maintain over a dozen Scala Play Framework microservices, providing an HTML UI for UK taxpayers and a REST API for third-party software developers, supporting agency registration and accountant–taxpayer relationships across various taxes and duties.
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Mar 2015 - Mar 2017
Senior Software Developer at Siili Solutions Oyj
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Senior developer role involved delivering software solutions and services for the banking, insurance, telecom, and manufacturing industries worldwide, working from the Wrocław office and collaborating with clients in Helsinki.
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Oct 2012 - Mar 2015
Lead Software Developer at Tieto Corporation/Brightone
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Senior and lead developer role in an agile scrum team of 5–6 at ImmobilienScout24 in Berlin, delivering and supporting multiple microservices for fraud detection, property seeker and agency ratings, and account and product management, while handling high volumes of property listings.
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Nov 2004 - Oct 2012
Software Designer and Developer at Euro Bank SA
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Software developer role involved architecting, building, scaling, and maintaining Euro Bank systems, evolving them from a monolithic Java EE design to SOA services and a flexible OSGi architecture, supporting the bank’s growth and acquisition by Société Générale.
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Oct 2001 - Nov 2004
Software Developer at ASP Poland Sp. z o. o.
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Software developer role involved independently developing solutions for a start-up in the construction and property market, including custom house design brokerage, printed template catalogs, and digital content for a major Polish online portal, ONET.PL.
Education
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2016
Scala Specialization Certificate at Coursera
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2010
Sun Certified Programmer for the Java Platform 6 (SCJP) at Oracle
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1991 - 1997
Poland, Faculty of Architecture, MSc. at Wrocław University of Technology
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2009 - 2014
Poland, Faculty of Civil Engineering at Wrocław University of Technology