Elie Labeca
Senior Scala Software Engineer at Pandakoo Ltd
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorElie Labeca is a Senior Scala Software Engineer based in London with 14 years of professional experience and a broader 25-year background in AI and software engineering. He has delivered backend systems across finance, media, utilities and government, notably contributing Scala work for HMRC and localized email template implementations (including Welsh) in the widely used hmrc-email-renderer repository. Comfortable across languages and stacks—Scala, Clojure, Node.js, React Native and C#—he moves between legacy modernization and cloud-native services while focusing on reliable production delivery. As an executive director of his own company since 2007, he brings entrepreneurial judgement alongside hands-on engineering. Colleagues know him for pragmatic refactors that reduce technical debt and for translating complex requirements into maintainable backend services.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (7)
html10
e-mail10
email-templates10
emailjs10
scala10
software-design9
testing7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
hmrc/hmrc-email-renderer
Apr 2018 - Jan 2022
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:56 reviews, 51 commits, 121 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Elie primarily contributed to the `hmrc-email-renderer` repository by adding and modifying email templates. Their work involved implementing new templates for various services, including Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) and digital contact notifications. They also updated existing templates and added Welsh translations, demonstrating experience with internationalization and localization. Furthermore, they refactored and moved existing templates into a new section for SEISS.
hmrc/two-way-message-frontend
Jan 2019 - Oct 2020
Contributions:2 reviews, 41 PRs, 64 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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