Emil Dafinov
Software Engineer at Nue.io
Brossard, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolEmil Dafinov is a pragmatic software engineer with nine years of experience building resilient backend systems, primarily in Scala and Java, and recent roles spanning Go and functional Scala with Cats/Cats Effect. He has deep hands-on experience with Akka-based architectures, microservices, Kubernetes/Helm deployments, and data migrations (Cassandra to Postgres), often improving testability and asynchronous processing in production services. Emil excels at designing clean, well-crafted APIs and has repeatedly optimized IO-intensive pipelines using Akka Streams and other reactive patterns. Based in Brossard, Quebec, he brings a track record across startups and large enterprises—Expedia, Morgan Stanley, AppDirect, and Upgrade—where he balanced SLAs with practical refactors that made long-running processes observable and reliable. He’s curious by nature and actively exploring the more functional side of Scala, blending pragmatic engineering with a focus on composable, testable designs.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MG VarnaD.E.C. Pure & Applied Science, D.E.C. Pure & Applied Science at Marianopolis CollegeMaster of Science Software Engineering, Master of Science Software Engineering at McGill University
English, Bulgarian, French, Russian
Github Skills (79)
connectors10
sbt-docker-compose9
slick9
sbt-plugin8
database8
jackson8
akka8
reactive8
sink8
messaging8
sbt8
scala8
aurora7
alpakka7
sql7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
dafutils/dafutils.g8
Jul 2017 - Feb 2021
Sample gitter8 template for Scala projects
Contributions:4 PRs, 20 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 8 months
templatesbt-pluginscalasbtslick
EmilDafinov/scala-ad-sdk
Jan 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:1 release, 88 PRs, 305 pushes in 9 months
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