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.

Noel is a Scala consultant at Inner Product and Underscore. He likes helping teams succeed with Scala, and creating libraries in Scala that allow people to get stuff done with a minimum of effort. He has written a few books on Scala: Scala with Cats, Essential Scala, and Creative Scala.

Daniel is the founder of Rock the JVM, a learning platform for everything in the Scala ecosystem. Daniel has a Master’s Degree in Computer Science and wrote his Bachelor and Master theses on Quantum Computation. Before starting to learn programming, he won medals at international Physics competitions.

David is a passionate advocate of simple, vanilla Scala and he studies and teaches it in his free time. As a Data Engineer, he has been building Streaming and Batch systems for 5 years. Before joining the Data world, he worked as a market analyst in Spain and as an international trade advisor in Canada.

Tomasz has worked with multiple programming language tools through the years trying to provide a productive environment for other developers to interact with. Currently, team lead of Scala Open Source team at VirtusLab. Łukasz is a polyglot full-stack developer and functional programming enthusiast. Scala Developer Advocate @ VirtusLab. Values quality over quantity. Permanent learner with a severe information dependency problem. Enjoys conversations about philosophy and all things related to mind’s inner workings. Loves mountains, biking and hiking.