Meet the 2025 Program Committee
Apr 25th, 2025
The Scala Days Program Committee is a team of Scala experts and practitioners who are generously giving their time to select the most interesting and relevant talks to be presented at the conference. Continue reading below as we introduce this year’s committee.
Meet the committee manager!
Darja Jovanovic
Darja is the Executive Director of the Scala Center. She has been in the role of Scala Days program manager since 2018.
Now, time meet the rest of this year’s stellar committee:
Adriaan Moors
Adriaan is a former Scala 2 compiler lead, cursing higher-kinded types since 2007. Now spends most of his working hours writing the simplest Scala (3) he can think of.
Professor Dr. Andrei Kucharavy
Prof. Dr. Andrei is Assistant Professor at the Informatics Institute of HEVS, co-director of the HES-SO Gen Learning Center and Swiss Cyber Defence Campus Distinguished Post-Doctoral Fellow, specializing in the security of Generative ML, notably generated code security.
Dimi Racordon
Dimi is a researcher at EPFL in Switzerland. She got her Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Geneva. She worked on model checking and developed efficient data structures to generate and explore large state spaces. Dimi likes generic programming, because it looks like math, and low-level programming languages, because she loves wasting time on premature optimization.
Krzysztof Borowski
Krzysztof is a Principal Software Engineer at VirtusLab and holds a Ph.D. in computer science. As both a researcher and hands-on practitioner, he focuses on designing simple, elegant, and scalable solutions that effectively meet business requirements.
Martin Odersky
Martin is a professor at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland. He is best known as the creator of the Scala programming language. Prior to that, he made several contributions to the development of Java. He created the Pizza and GJ languages, designed the original version of generics for Java, and wrote the javac reference compiler.
Raúl Raja
Raúl is the CTO and Co-founder of Predictable Machines.
Seth Tisue
Seth has been active in Scala since 2008 in roles including user, contributor, meetup and conference organizer, speaker, podcaster, moderator, and more. He currently serves on the Scala Core Team as “Community Advocate”.
Zainab Ali
Zainab is a functional programming polyglot, educator and the author of Functional Stream Processing in Scala. She is a Scala ambassador, a community representative for the Scala Center, the organizer of the London Scala User Group and frequent OSS contributor.
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