Bendix Sältz
Technical Lead at MOIA
Hamburg, Germany
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolBendix Sältz is a Technical Lead and seasoned Scala engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native systems and leading teams at MOIA and Akanoo. He blends hands-on development—particularly Scala on AWS and clickstream analytics—with people-first agile leadership to deliver data-driven products and great user experiences. A contributor to prominent open-source projects like typelevel/cats and Kamon, he has improved functional programming utilities and production telemetry (including gzip support for Prometheus endpoints). Based in Hamburg, he pairs an M.Sc. from the University of Hamburg with practical CTO experience, uniquely bridging backend engineering, observability, and data science.
11 years of coding experience
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Master of Science (M.Sc.) at University of HamburgBachelor of Science (B.S.), Bachelor of Science (B.S.) at University of Potsdam
Latin, French, English, German
Github Skills (9)
scala10
javas10
gzip10
functional-programming10
prometheus10
java10
metric10
testing10
distributed-tracing9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
typelevel/cats
Jan 2021 - Jul 2022
Lightweight, modular, and extensible library for functional programming.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 19 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Bendix primarily contributed to the `cats` library by implementing new features and refining existing ones related to functional programming concepts, specifically NonEmptyList. Their work included adding methods like `zip`, `take`, `prependList` and `appendList` and their related tests. Additionally, the user added instances for the Deadline type and refactored code to ensure stack safety and improve code structure.
functional-programmingtagless-finalscalamodularextensible
kamon-io/Kamon
Dec 2020 - Dec 2020
Distributed Tracing, Metrics and Context Propagation for applications running on the JVM
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 5 commits, 1 PR in 13 days
Contributions summary:Bendix focused on adding gzip compression support for the Prometheus metrics endpoint. This involved modifying the embedded HTTP server to check for the `Accept-Encoding` header and, if present, compress the metrics response using GZIP. The user also added a test to verify the size of the gzipped metrics, ensuring the compression was effective. Furthermore, the user addressed a bug related to the `/metrics` endpoint and fixed an incorrect test related to gzipped metrics.
propagationcontext-propagationkamontracingotel
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