Slava Schmidt is a software developer living in Germany. During his career, he has used a wide spectrum of programming languages, ranging from Assembler to Haskell, and progressed from an intern programmer, via head of engineering, to a Scala contractor. In his current role, he helps to develop and bring into production a number of Scala projects of various sizes and complexities for customers from different industries.
He is a contributor to open source projects related to Scala and Akka. As a passionate conference speaker, he regularly gives talks about technologies to share his experiences with other developers.
I'd like to thank Tatjana Schmidt for making the images in this book look great, Mike Litvin for his timely support, Marco Borst for (in)validating lots of ideas (without necessarily knowing this) and the production team at Packt, especially Manjusha Mantri, for all of their advice and assistance.