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Tech Team Tuesday: Meet Nicolas Riche

Nicolas Riche is a Software Developer who is very enthusiastic when it comes to writing about high-quality, robust software. He continuously looks to improve his expertise to achieve his goals by learning new state of the art tools and practices different ways of thinking, etc. He was first attracted to the promises of functional programming, then…

What is it like to work at YoppWorks?

YoppWorks is a software consulting company based in Ottawa, Canada. The main focus is on Scala, and we work with Lightbend, Redhat and other partners to deliver business solutions to a wide range of businesses internationally. I’ve been working here for only 8 months, and this is my first consulting gig. Previously I worked on…

Tech Team Tuesday: Meet Yoonsoon Jahng

Yoonsoon is a Software Engineer with 14 years of industry experience and a master’s degree. He has extensive expertise in big data and telecom, and has been a big part of our team for over two years now. 1. What is the biggest misconception of a reactive architecture system? Reactive service is not microservice and…

Tech Team Tuesday: Meet Jesse Webb

Jesse is a software developer with over 10 years of experience programming with a variety of languages such as Java, Scala, Python, C#, and JavaScript. He specializes in backend API design and database optimization but is known to dabble with frontend technologies every now and then too. When Jesse isn’t coding, he enjoys playing video

Tech Team Tuesday: Meet Francis ‘The Beard’ Toth

Francis ‘The Beard’ Toth I am a software developer, trainer and developer advocate with over 15 years experience developing highly scalable web/mobile/backend applications, optimizing work processes and leading dev teams. I am currently interested by Functional Programming and distributed systems. I also give presentations at various events, love music and Kayaking. 1. What is the…

Tech Team Tuesday: Meet Rodrigo Lima

Rodrigo is a passionate, hands-on professional with over 10 years’ experience in software development having JVM stack as main background. I’ve worked in several projects using different technologies like Java, Scala, NodeJs, Angular and Ruby on rails. He is currently working for Yoppworks building highly scalable applications using the Lightbend stack and Reactive architecture principles.…

Tech Team Tuesday: Meet Volodymyr Koreniev

Volodymyr is a software engineer, who started his career as a back-end Java programmer 18 years ago. Now he is enthusiastic about typed functional programming, streaming data processing, and various aspects of software design and architecture. He wrote his first program in Scala about 10 years ago, and has been using it as a primary…

Tech Team Tuesday: Meet Nader Ghanbari

Nader Ghanbari is a full stack agile developer who loves mathematics, functional programming, data science and machine learning. He worked as a software architect for 4 years in his previous roles. These days he mostly codes in Scala and JavaScript. His hobby is learning: whether a new musical instrument or a new foreign language or…

Tech Team Tuesday: Meet Dave Kichler

Dave is a polyglot software engineer with a background in mostly JVM-based backend architecture and development. He enjoys working with Scala, building systems from reactive principles, and trying to expand his knowledge of functional techniques. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his family and jumping out of airplanes. What is the biggest…

Tech Team Tuesday: Meet Josh Lemer

Josh is a software engineer with over 5 years of experience in the Scala and JVM ecosystem, and a background largely in data processing pipelines with tools like Flink and Spark, as well as in building microservices. In his time off he enjoys learning new technologies, these days he’s really interested in Kubernetes, Clojure, Go,…

Tech Team Tuesday: Meet Zoran Jeremic

Zoran is a Software engineer with 15 years of experience in the full life cycle of the software design process. He also has a PhD degree in Software engineering. He has extensive expertise in big data, analytics and educational technologies. In his spare time, he is constantly learning new technologies. What is the biggest misconception…

Tech Team Tuesday: Meet Sam Huang

Sam Huang has been a software developer for many years, working for Startups as well as Enterprise businesses. As a software consultant, he travelled to Asia, Europe and worked in Silicon Valley. Sam loves using Linux and OpenSource software and has tried many distributions like Mandrake, SuSE and now RedHat. When he is not working,…