Artur Opala
Tech Lead Senior Scala Developer at HM Revenue & Customs
Worthing, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolArtur Opala is a pragmatic Tech Lead and Senior Scala developer with 13 years of experience building cloud-native JVM microservices, often leading cross-functional teams to deliver complex public-sector and consumer systems. He specializes in functional and reactive programming with Scala (and Elm on the front end), and is comfortable across Java, TypeScript, Play, Akka Streams, and large-scale data and cloud infrastructure. His recent roles include shaping customs and tax platforms at HMRC, media-scale image pipelines for Disney+, and building remittance backends and high-throughput data pipelines for automotive autonomy projects. Known for hands-on delivery, mentoring junior engineers, and improving testing and deployment practices, he also publishes his open-source work on GitHub. An uncommon detail: he blends formal training in architecture and structural engineering with deep software craftsmanship, which informs his systems-thinking approach to resilient service design.
13 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Architecture, MSc Architecture at Wrocław University of Science and Technology
English, French, Polish, Russian
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Github Skills (63)
derived10
traversal10
buffer10
prism10
dotty10
language-server10
iso10
atom-plugin10
jenkins10
scala-native9
giter89
mingw-w649
elm9
scala9
groovy9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
arturopala/scala-tree
Mar 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:323 commits, 297 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
arturopala/make-it-g8
Apr 2019 - Sep 2021
Contributions:18 releases, 182 commits, 142 pushes in 2 years 5 months
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