Ariel Sint
Scala Engineer at Sainsbury's Digital, Tech and Data
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAriel Sint is a Scala engineer based in London with 11 years of experience building and modernizing backend systems across retail, media and enterprise software. He specializes in Scala, Akka and Kafka-driven microservices, having migrated monoliths, parallelised pipelines to process tens of thousands of messages per second, and removed critical security and dependency debt at scale. Ariel combines hands-on coding with team-level improvements—introducing development processes, deploy guides and automated checks to speed delivery and raise quality. His background spans functional Scala web UIs, Go and Python services, and operational tooling (Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana), giving him a pragmatic full-stack backend perspective. Notably, he has a track record of turning legacy, high-debt systems into stable, observable platforms while mentoring and onboarding colleagues to sustain those gains.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence, 2:1 (67%), Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence, 2:1 (67%) at City University LondonJerusalem College of TechnologyImmanuel College, Bushey, Hertfordshire, London
Github Skills (23)
python10
mqtt10
internet-of-things10
asyncio10
iot10
jekyll10
home-assistant10
raspberry-pi10
home-automation10
documentation10
polymer9
chess9
frontend8
esp328
arduino8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
930913/framework32
Dec 2020 - Feb 2021
Framework32 gives your ESP32 the ability to run multiple, graphical apps on very small displays
Contributions:30 commits, 6 PRs, 21 pushes in 2 months
esp32arduino
930913/ld2410-ble
Dec 2022 - Feb 2023
Interface with LD2410B modules from HiLink
Contributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 month
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