Andrew Bessi
Port Talbot, Wales, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Bessi is a Haskell developer with 11 years of experience building distributed and event-driven systems, currently applying functional programming and strong static typing at Tracsis plc. He brings a background in Scala and general software development from roles at OnTrack Retail, BITROCK, and Lutech, enabling pragmatic design across JVM and pure-functional stacks. Based in Port Talbot, Wales, he combines a deep enthusiasm for functional programming and FOSS with hands-on engineering to deliver reliable, maintainable systems. Unusually for a senior engineer, his academic path spans law and economics, which informs a structured, analytical approach to problem solving and system design. Outside work he’s an avid traveller, swimmer, hiker and RPG fan, reflecting a curious, disciplined mindset that feeds into his engineering craft.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Law, Bachelor's degree, Law at Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
English, Italian
Github Skills (51)
scala9
go9
functional-programming9
rest-api8
spark-jobserver8
yampa8
dependabot8
spark8
ipad8
iphone8
messaging8
reactive7
reflection7
akka7
rest7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Vincibean/ScalaForTheImpatient-Solutions
Jan 2016 - Jun 2021
My own solutions to the exercises contained in "Scala for the Impatient" by Cay Horstmann
Contributions:1 PR, 87 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
scala
Vincibean/my-dayz-guide
Sep 2023 - May 2026
My DayZ Guide
Contributions:4 PRs, 71 pushes, 14 branches in 2 years 7 months
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