Dick Wall
Newbury, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarDick Wall is a seasoned Scala and Java engineer with over two decades of experience designing and building distributed, massively concurrent, and big-data systems, often applied to scientific and mathematical domains like genetics and remote sensing. He combines deep language expertise—functional and imperative Scala, Akka, Play—with hands-on experience in CI/CD, SBT, testing, and a wide range of databases from relational to NoSQL. Known as a trainer and conference speaker, he authored the SubCut Scala library and frequently bridges domain experts’ math/physics problems into scalable software. Practical, quick to learn, and comfortable integrating third-party APIs and complex workflows, he brings rare depth across both architecture and developer-facing tooling.
16 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
56reputation
412reached
1answer
0questions
Github Skills (80)
scala-native10
object-oriented-programming10
jvm-languages10
dsl10
sbt10
scala10
documentation10
sublime10
functional-programming10
traits10
reactive9
stream9
compiler9
metaprogramming9
standard-library9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dickwall/subcut
May 2011 - May 2018
Scala Uniquely Bound Classes Under Traits
Contributions:63 commits, 1 PR, 10 pushes in 7 years
scalatraitsmetaprogrammingbound
dickwall/activator-play-subcut
Sep 2013 - Aug 2015
Contributions:2 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 year 10 months
templateactivatortypesafe
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